On 04.03.2019 at 14:58, Lester Caine wrote: > The one that is causing the most agro is complaints about using 'count' > especially when they are being thrown in the cached templates used by > Smarty and other elements of the framework. IS it now required that > there is a separate check of the item being counted exists where > previously it simply returned '0'? Throwing (array) in front of each > just seems totally wrong, but the whole framework runs on the principle > that an element is created when there is one or more values, and there > being zero of those elements is flagged by it's absence in the bigger > associative array. I've yet to work out just how Smarty is handling this > problem and hacking the cache to add (array) quietens down the > complaints ... but what is the correct way of handling this? If I want to know whether my purse is *empty*, I don't have to *count* the coins. So, use `!empty($item)` instead of `count($item)`. -- Christoph M. Becker
