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 Posted by Mark Cain on 05/02/05 01:35 
From the Manual: 
 
empty() is the opposite of (boolean) var, except that no warning is 
generated when the variable is not set 
 
It appears that there is a revamp of what is considered to be empty in PHP 
5. 
 
http://php.net/empty 
 
You might be better served with 
array_key_exists() 
 
such as: 
 echo array_key_exists('c', $a)? 'empty':'not empty'; 
 
Mark Cain 
 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gabriel Birke" <gabriel.birke@gmail.com> 
To: <php-general@lists.php.net> 
Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 4:47 PM 
Subject: [PHP] empty function and array indices 
 
 
> Hello! 
> 
> Suppose I have the following code: 
> 
> $a = array('a'=>1, 'b'=>2); 
> echo empty($a['c'])?'empty':'not empty'; 
> echo $a['c']; 
> 
> Why doesn't the 2nd line output a warning when error_reporting is set 
> to E_ALL? Is empty() some kind of special function where the validity 
> of indices is not checked? If that is the case, I have two questions: 
> 
> 1. Will this behavior persist in future versions of PHP? 
> 2. Are there other functions or a general rule where PHP doesn't 
> output warnings when a nonexistant index is given? 
> 
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