PHP programmers are frequently into using the various is_x group of functions: is_int, is_null etc. All of this functions take a single parameter which leads you to believe that other similar constructs take only a single parameter. Like the isset and unset constructs, which by the way take multiple parameters as shown below, which might help you save some keystrokes.
So instead of writing:
$var1 = 'a'; $var2 = 'b'; $var3 = 'c'; $var4 = 'd'; if(isset($var1) && isset($var2) && isset($var3) && isset($var4)) { // All variables are set, do something } |
We can write:
$var1 = 'a'; $var2 = 'b'; $var3 = 'c'; $var4 = 'd'; if(isset($var1, $var2, $var3, $var4)) { // Will return TRUE only if all of the parameters are set } |
Same with the unset() construct:
unset($var1, $var2, $var3, $var4); |
4 Responses
1
Nesakysiu
February 1st, 2010 at 8:32 am
Nice
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kiran aghor
February 4th, 2010 at 8:55 pm
wow great. thanks for sharing this.
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Chris Roane
February 26th, 2010 at 2:36 pm
Good to know. I know that I’ve done the long hand version many times before and this will save a lot of time.
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Lucas
October 26th, 2010 at 12:49 pm
Oh, very nice, i relly never see this function, thank you for that post! keep the good job.
So, 1 question, isset($var, $var1) is faster than isset($var) && isset($var1).
Thank you again.