note 17265 deleted from migration4.empty by philip
| From: | philip@php.net | Date: | Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:10:31 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 17265 deleted from migration4.empty by philip | ||
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Note Submitter: alan at frostick dot de
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The changes to empty() also affect isset() in a similar way.
Under php3:
$foo=""; isset($foo) returned false..
but under php4 it returns true, because the variable is defined.
I discovered this when converting other people's code to php4. They used isset() unnecessarily
- with the implicit expectation it just tested the value of the variable as being non-null. Although
I don't agree with sloppy coding, it can give an unexpected shock when run under php4 and so
any uses of isset() should be searched for before you attempt to migrate.