Take this statement:
true ? 1 : false ? 2 : 3
In ruby, C, Java, etc. it evaluates to 1.
In PHP it evaluates to 2.
Apparently PHP evaluates inside-out:
(true ? 1 : false) ? 2 : 3 => (1) ? 2 : 3 => 2
...where everything else evaluates left-to-right:
true ? 1 : (false ? 2 : 3) => 1
Interesting.