John Nichel wrote:
Jochem Maas wrote:
AndreaD wrote:
I have a session variable called
$_SESSION['total'] the problem is I can't delete/reset it. I have tried
$_SESSION['total']= 0;
$_SESSION['total']= "";
I guess you didn't know/think of trying null:
$_SESSION['total'] = null;
...which has the same effect as using:
unset($_SESSION['total']); // as you have been told on at least 3 diff
occasions ;-)
Not true. If you set it to null, it still exists...it's just null. If
you unset it, the variable no longer exists.
fair enough, but then how do you differentiate between a var that exists and is null
and a non-existant var?
Marek pointed out that setting error reporting to E_ALL, shows a notice
when you var_dump() the unset() var and not the null var, but other than that
the unset() var and the null var give the same result from isset() and empty()
e.g:
error_reporting(E_ALL);
$X = array("total" => 1);
$X["total"] = null;
if ( isset ( $X["total"] ) ) {
echo ( "Yes" );
} else {
echo ( "No" );
}
var_dump( $X["total"] );
unset ( $X["total"] );
if ( isset ( $X["total"] ) ) {
echo ( "Yes" );
} else {
echo ( "No" );
}
var_dump( $X["total"] );
which produces the following for me:
NoNULL
NoPHP Notice: Undefined index: total in Command line code on line 23
NULL
so that means you would have to set a suitable error handler for E_NOTICE just before
the place you want to check if the var exists and unset it immediately afterwards??
funny how in everyday [php]life this is never a problem :-)
$_SESSION['total'] = null;
if ( isset ( $_SESSION['total'] ) ) {
echo ( "Yes" );
} else {
echo ( "No" );
}
unset ( $_SESSION['total'] );
if ( isset ( $_SESSION['total'] ) ) {
echo ( "Yes" );
} else {
echo ( "No" );
}
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