note 48 modified in function.reset by felipe

From: Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:46:04 +0000
Subject: note 48 modified in function.reset by felipe
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When used on a scalar or unset value, reset() spews warning messages. This is often a problem when accessing arrays generated from HTML form input data: these are scalar or unset if the user didn't enter sufficient information. You can silence these error messages by prefixing an @ (at sign) to reset(), but it is better style to protect your reset() and the following array traversal with an if (isset()). Example code: <?php if (isset($form_array)) { reset($form_array); while (list($k, $v) = each($form_array) { do_something($k, $v); } } ?> --was-- When used on a scalar or unset value, reset() spews warning messages. This is often a problem when accessing arrays generated from HTML form input data: these are scalar or unset if the user didn't enter sufficient information. You can silence these error messages by prefixing an @ (at sign) to reset(), but it is better style to protect your reset() and the following array traversal with an if (isset()). Example code: if (isset($form_array)) { reset($form_array); while (list($k, $v) = each($form_array) { do_something($k, $v); } } http://php.net/manual/en/function.reset.php

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