#26380 [NEW]: Find out whether an object is empty

From: bart at mediawave dot nl Operating system: Windows 2000 PHP version: 5.0.0b2 (beta2) PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description: Find out whether an object is empty Description: ------------ This bug/feature request has some relation with bug: #25640. I've loaded XML into a simpleXML object. SimpleXML currently loads empty tags (e.g. <tag />) as empty SimpleXML objects. With the SimpleXML object I wanted to use the following code to find out whether a tag has child tags or not: if (is_object($SimpleXMLObjectNode)) { // $node has child tags Unfortunately this doesn't work very well since this code will think that empty tags have child tags too. (Since empty tags are loaded as objects) Therefore I thought it would be a nice feature to be able to find out whether an object is empty or not. Something like: if (empty($object)) { // Object is empty } Reproduce code: --------------- <?php $xml = '<wrapper><foo></foo><bar>s2</bar><bar>s3</bar></wrapper>'; $t = simplexml_load_string($xml); print_r($t); if (empty($t->foo)) { echo 'Tag is empty'; } else { echo 'Tag has contents'; } ?> Expected result: ---------------- Tag is empty Actual result: -------------- Tag has contents -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=26380&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (php4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=26380&r=trysnapshot4 Try a CVS snapshot (php5): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=26380&r=trysnapshot5 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=26380&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=26380&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=26380&r=needtrace Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=26380&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=26380&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=26380&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=26380&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=26380&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=26380&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=26380&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=26380&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=26380&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=26380&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=26380&r=float