There must be a better way (php, string)

Question

I want to display a user's firstname if they gave us one, otherwise their email. The code below functions, but I don't like how it takes so many lines, I vaguely recall some way of maybe doing this with OR? I have (essentially):

if ($firstname == "")
{
$name   = $email;
}else{
$name = $firstname;
}
echo $name;

Answer 1

echo ($firstname) ? $firstname : $email;