note 16766 deleted from language.types.null by peehaa

Note Submitter: dward at maidencreek dot com ---- Nulls are almost the same as unset variables and it is hard to tell the difference without creating errors from the interpreter: <?php $var = NULL; ?> isset($var) is FALSE empty($var) is TRUE is_null($var) is TRUE isset($novar) is FALSE empty($novar) is TRUE is_null($novar) gives an Undefined variable error $var IS in the symbol table (from get_defined_vars()) $var CAN be used as an argument or an expression. So, in most cases I found that we needed to use !isset($var) intead of is_null($var) and then set $var = NULL if the variable needs to be used later to guarantee that $var is a valid variable with a NULL value instead of being undefined.