Never use empty()
I've been burned by this too many times.
It's behaviour around '0' and friends changed over the years.
Some colleagues at a former job looked at me funny when they first
heard my rant about this. Then they tracked down 3 separate bugs and
fixed them, all deriving from the use of empty().
ymmv
On Wed, January 13, 2010 7:36 am, mathieu.suen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I came across this:
>
> echo sizeof(array());
> echo sizeof("");
> $a = "";
> var_dump( empty($a));
> $a = array();
> var_dump(empty($a));
>
> So funny! How something can have a size greater than 0 but still be
> empty?
> I think PHP is reinventing the inconsistency word.
>
> But then let assume that empty is just making a cast in array.
> $a = "";
> empty($a) //true
> empty((array)$a) //false
>
> Ok so empty is big ugly switch case on type.
>
> empty(0); //true
> empty(45); //false
>
> Wooow reinventing emptiness on number....
>
> -- Mathieu Suen
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