Re: Re: ramble was [PHP] Not sure of my error

Would you be able to provide an example of where isset() fails ? I have never seen it not work. Ive seen it work wired, but it allways works. <? $a[0] = 0; $a[1] = 1; $a[2] = 2; unset($a[0]); unset($a[1]); unset($a[2]); if ( isset($a) ) echo "this will display"; unset($a); if (isset($a) ) echo "this will NOT display"; ?> Just because you unset all the elements does not mean you delete the variable itself. Think of it like a table in a database. just because you delete all the elements in the table doesn't mean you've deleted the table itself. Chris Lee Mediawaveonline.com In article <20001117193300.A5308@zorka.com>, joe@earth.care2.com wrote: >> This is silly. Even if it works the way you want it to, it's bad >> style. If I joined your project late and had to look at it I would not >> understand what you're trying to do. > > I'm telling you I've seen isset() fail - especially in PHP3. This is a > habit I started a while ago and stuck with it because it's fail safe - > you can preach isset() all you want, but the fact remains we (Jer and I > both) use it on a very large PHP site (1 million page views and 1.4 > million members) and we haven't seen it fail yet. > > This is how we would explain it to you when you joined our team :O) On a > site that large we can't risk something failing. > >> if you want to see if a var is set and non-zero, use >> if((isset($var))&&($var!=0)) > > Checking for int values is an entirely different story. > > --Joe > > >> >> - Mark >> >> >>