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Posted by Chris Hope on 11/03/60 11:16
Tim Van Wassenhove wrote:
> On 2005-05-17, Chris Hope <blackhole@electrictoolbox.com> wrote:
>> Mike Willbanks wrote:
>>
>>> Chris,
>>>> You could do it like this instead of using the @, although your way
>>>> is less verbose.
>>>>
>>>> $name = isset($_POST['name']) ? $_POST['name'] : '';
>>>>
>>>> An advantage of doing it this way is it this way lets you specify a
>>>> default value.
>>>
>>> sometimes an even better way is with empty, for say if a field is
>>> required data :)
>>>
>>> if (empty($_POST['name'])) {
>>> echo('Name must be filled out.');
>>> }
>>
>> That's cool. Isn't it fun how you can program in a language for 7
>> years and still not know a little thing like that :)
>
> Don't know which one is fastest:
>
> - isset
> - empty
> - array_key_exists
They're all essentially doing the same thing so they probably take about
the same amount of time.
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