Bug #13874 Updated: isset on a associative array does not distinct if key exist

ID: 13874 User updated by: raymond@bokenkamp.com Reported By: raymond@bokenkamp.com Status: Bogus Bug Type: Unknown/Other Function Operating System: ALL PHP Version: 4.0.6 New Comment: understood. However there is still no effective way to check if a key exists in an array !!! Maybe my title should have been different ... for the real problem see my sample ... Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-10-30 11:42:42] sander@php.net Not a bug. Intended behaviour. isset() returns false on variables with a NULL value. Documentation is being worked on. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-10-30 11:23:43] raymond@bokenkamp.com There's no good way to check weather a key exists in an associative array. The problem is that if the key exists, but the value is null, is treated the same as if the key doesn't exist. The only way I figure is to check: in_array("key", array_keys($array)) but this seams rather expensive. (Compare: perl has an "exists" function ...) Sample: $sample = array("a" => "a", "b" => NULL); print ":".isset($sample['a'])."<br>\n"; print ":".isset($sample['b'])."<br>\n"; print ":".isset($sample['c'])."<br>\n"; print ":".in_array("a", array_keys($sample))."<br>\n"; print ":".in_array("b", array_keys($sample))."<br>\n"; print ":".in_array("c", array_keys($sample))."<br>\n"; ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=13874&edit=1