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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