note 21515 deleted from control-structures by torben

what lexzeus@mifinca.com wrote about functions should be a common technic but i saw lots of code recently not using this. you can write: if (sizeof($array) && is_array($array)) {} which is terribly wrong. if $array is not an array you'll get a php error in the sizeof function, because it only supports arrays. this would be right: if (is_array($array) && sizeof($array)) {} now php will stop processing this if statement in is_array, if $array is not an array, and continue executing after the if statement. in this way you'll never get a php error. So think about the order in which you place your function calls.