Re: check if any element of an array is not "empty"

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Richard Heyes <richardh@phpguru.org> wrote: > but I was thinking if there is the function does that. >> > > array_filter(). Note this: > > "If no callback is supplied, all entries of input equal to FALSE (see > converting to boolean) will be removed." > > http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/function.array-filter.php i dont really see how that gets him the answer without at least checking the number of elements in the array after filtering it w/ array_filter; which if he wanted to reuse in several places would make sense to write a simple function for anyway.. function isSomethingInArray($array) { if(count(array_filter($array)) > 0) { return true; } else { return false; } } -nathan