Posted by Toby A Inkster on 05/10/07 12:50

Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote:

> Or even with the more compact ternary-operator form:
> $search = isset($_GET['search']) ? $_GET['search'] : NULL ;

This is quite a common thing to do, so I recommend creating a function for
it:

function ifsetor ($a, $b)
{
if (isset($a)) return $a;
return $b;
}

$search = ifsetor($_GET['search'], NULL);

I keep meaning to write a function that does the same for N arguments
instead of 2.

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