On Apr 16, 2007, at 11:27 AM, Jim Lucas wrote:

Stut wrote:
Jim Lucas wrote:
Richard Kurth wrote:
What do you do when isset does not work? If I send data in a
$_REQUEST['var'] like if (isset($_REQUEST['var'])) {
}
Put var has no data it still says it is set. Because $_REQUEST ['var'] = ""
and isset thinks "" is set

I use this combination a lot:

if ( isset($_GET['something']) && !empty($_GET['something']) ) {
    // do something here with $_GET['something']
}
The isset is a pointless waste of cycles.
-Stut
well, as the OP said, he wants to know when the variable has a value other the "".

So, to check for that you have to do something like this right?

        if ( $var != '' ) {}
        if ( strlen($var) > 0 ) {}
        if ( !empty($var) ) {}
        ... a number of other ideas come to mind, but

none of them will work, because they will always product a E_NOTICE warning.


empty() does NOT produce an E_NOTICE if the variable is not set. That's one of the things it considers as empty.

And why I always do !empty($foo) then check for a value such as (! empty($foo) && $foo == $bar)

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