I've never been a fan of brackets in control structures and only today I realised how it only accepts one statement within a bracket less if condition, if I have more than one statement it will throw a syntax error. Is this how PHP works or can it be something wrong with my IDE?
Obviously the error is clear but I just want to make sure this is normal.
If you have any other any links to other alternate syntax let me know please.
Bellow is just something I pasted from a project am doing and example of the syntax error.
if($this->reel3 = 1)
parent::addCash($this->$bet*2);
print(parent::getCash()); // < Line throwing the syntax error
else
// TODO
EDIT (FURTHERMORE)
After looking at some of the answer and comments I was wondering how its done in a professional environment, I know this is more about taste but I want to know from the professional out there if the style of the syntax matters?
Would
if(condition)
{
//something
} else {
//something
}
be better than
if(condition):
//something
else:
//something
endif;
or any other way of writing the same piece of code?