note 72833 added to function.empty

Read the above note carefully: "Note: empty() only checks variables as anything else will result in a parse error." Took me forever to google around and figure out this error was related to above lines: [02-Feb-2007 09:38:09] PHP Fatal error: Can't use function return value in write context in blah.php on line ## So hopefully someone else googling the error text itself, will track back to this page. It would be nice though if empty() can 'correctly' parse and return a value for a function call within itself like other funcs. ---- Server IP: 64.71.164.2 Probable Submitter: 64.80.206.97 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.empty.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/72833 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/72833/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/72833/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/72833/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/72833/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/72833/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/72833/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/72833 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/72833 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php