'Twas brillig, and Raymond Irving at 30/04/09 03:32 did gyre and gimble:
Hello,
Every so often I have to be using the isset() function to check if a variable exists. It would be useful to have something like an ifset() function
Instead of doing this
$v = isset($input) ? $input : $default;
we can do this
$v = ifset($input,$default);
// returns $input if it exists otherwise it will return $default
We could also do the same for the empty() function. So instead of doing this
$v = empty($input) ? $default : $input;
we can do this
$v = ifempty($input,$default);
// returns $input if it is not empty otherwise it will return $default
What do you think? Can they make it into 5.3?
To be honest, I don't see the compelling need for this.
I don't disagree that the functionality is nice, however I quite like
the verbose versions as they are clearer to understand without knowing
an API function.
Also, most of the cases that you would use these functions are with
input from GET args and the like. Most frameworks provides wrappers for
this with handy ways to get the defaults etc.
So overall, I can't see this becoming a core PHP feature.
Col
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