?: operator (the ‘Elvis operator’) in PHP

I saw this today in some PHP code:

$items = $items ?: $this->_handle->result('next', $this->_result, $this);

I’m not familiar with the ?: operator being used here. It looks like a ternary operator, but the expression to evaluate to if the predicate is true has been omitted. What does it mean?

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