Posted by frizzle on 03/19/06 22:42

ColdShine wrote:
> frizzle in news:1142679430.087309.144470@g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com wrote:
>
> > Richard Levasseur wrote:
> >> You can also just do == 0
> >>
> >> "" == 0
> >> NULL == 0
> >> array() == 0
> >> 0 == 0
> >>
> >> Coldshine's method is better though. If you require all the data, make
> >> sure all of the parts have data in them.
> >
> > Thank you both! So in fact it was ok to do my second option.
> > What i don't understand is the following:
> >
> > echo '<br>year: '.($article_year? $article_year: 'null');
> > echo '<br>month: '.($article_month? $article_month: 'null');
> > echo '<br>article: '.($article_url? $article_url: 'null');
> >
> > I know the statements, but what does it look for in this case?
> > Does it detect wether or not e.g. $article_year is set at all?
>
> Sorry for my empty reply...
> Anyways: if a variable is not set, casting it to bool (as done by testing
> statements) will result in an E_NOTICE and will return false. Casting a 0 or
> a null also return false.
>
> --
> ColdShine
>
> "Experience is a hard teacher: she gives the test first, the lesson
> afterwards." - Vernon Sanders law

ok, thank you!
I have it up and running now, and tested a lot, and it works great.
Thanks.

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