May 2016
Intermediate to advanced
155 pages
2h 15m
English
© Mikael Olsson 2016
Mikael Olsson, PHP 7 Quick Scripting Reference, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1922-5_20
Mikael Olsson1
(1)Hammarland, Finland
As a web-focused language, it is common in PHP to process user-supplied data. Such data needs to be tested before it is used to confirm that it exists and has a valid value. PHP provides a number of built-in constructs that can be used for this purpose.
The isset language construct returns true if the variable exists and has been assigned a value other than null.
isset($a); // false$a = 10;isset($a); // true$a = null;isset($a); // false
The empty construct checks whether the specified variable has an empty value— such as null, 0, false, or an empty string—and returns true if that is the ...
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