can't use OR in blade template

When I am developing locally on win10 php7.2 nginx expression like this works just fine

    <div class="{{ $menuclass or 'menu'}}">

which gives

    <div class="menu">

but as soon as I deploy it via laravel forge to ubuntu machine it fails to work and I get this

    <div class="1">

It seems that instead of doing this:

    isset($menuclass ) ? $menuclass : 'menu'

it just returns 1

Any ideas why?

Has it been deprecated in later versions of laravel?

Best Answer

Level 122

or has been removed from later versions as you can just use php null coalesce operator instead ??

Check the upgrade guide

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Level 50

The Blade "or" operator has been removed in favor of PHP's built-in ?? "null coalesce" operator, which has the same purpose and functionality:

// Laravel 5.6... {{ $foo or 'default' }}

// Laravel 5.7... {{ $foo ?? 'default' }}

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Level 8

thanks guys, that was fast! :)

Level 122

mark it solved please

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