From:             james dot laver at gmail dot com
Operating system: GNU/Linux
PHP version:      5.2.5
PHP Bug Type:     Class/Object related
Bug description:  __empty() magic method

Description:
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Using empty() on a variable that would be pulled from __get does not work,
this has been established as 'not a bug' by more bug reports than anyone
cares to remember, however, the documentation's suggestion of using __isset
is not adequate if you wish to implement both isset and empty
functionality.

Thus I propose an __empty() magic method which would overload empty() in
the way that __isset() overrides isset().

Reproduce code:
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public function __empty($value)
{
  return empty($this->_values[$value]);
}

Expected result:
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empty($object->my_empty_value) = true

Actual result:
--------------
.....

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Fixed in CVS:                 http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43936&r=fixedcvs
Fixed in release:             
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43936&r=alreadyfixed
Need backtrace:               http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43936&r=needtrace
Need Reproduce Script:        http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43936&r=needscript
Try newer version:            http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43936&r=oldversion
Not developer issue:          http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43936&r=support
Expected behavior:            http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43936&r=notwrong
Not enough info:              
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43936&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice:              
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43936&r=submittedtwice
register_globals:             http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43936&r=globals
PHP 3 support discontinued:   http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43936&r=php3
Daylight Savings:             http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43936&r=dst
IIS Stability:                http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43936&r=isapi
Install GNU Sed:              http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43936&r=gnused
Floating point limitations:   http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43936&r=float
No Zend Extensions:           http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43936&r=nozend
MySQL Configuration Error:    http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=43936&r=mysqlcfg

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