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[Paul A Houle]

  On 10/25/2010 1:12 PM, Rob Marscher wrote:
> On Oct 25, 2010, at 1:03 PM, Paul A Houle wrote:
>> On 10/25/2010 12:22 PM, David Mintz wrote:
>>> Anybody know of any reason not to save a little typing with
>>> empty($array['foo'])
>> I think also this will throw an error or exception if you're running with E_STRICT,  which you should.
> I thought so too, but I tested it this morning and it didn't seem to throw a notice.  It must operate like isset.
>
     Well if you think array_key_exists($key,$array) is wack,  you can write

function has_key($array,$key) {
     return array_key_exists($key,$array);
}

     personally I hate the reversal of order in array_key_exists as 
compared to $array[$key].  The only trouble is that this one more thing 
for the guy who maintains your code in the future to remember.