Can the || operator be used to select between values of non-boolean types in PHP?

Question

Is it possible to echo using ||, so that it uses the first variable that evaluates to true?

for example,

$a = false;
$b = 'b';
echo $a || $b || 'neither'; // evaluates to 1 ?

Answer 1

Ternary operator

echo (($a) ? : $b) ? : 'neither';