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15 years ago
I always code with E_ALL set.
After a couple of pages of
<?php
$username = (isset($_POST['username']) && !empty($_POST['username']))....
?>

I made this function to make things a little bit quicker.  Unset values passed by reference won't trigger a notice.

<?php
function test_ref(&$var,$test_function='',$negate=false) {
    $stat = true;
    if(!isset($var)) $stat = false;
    if (!empty($test_function) && function_exists($test_function)){
        $stat = $test_function($var);
        $stat = ($negate) ? $stat^1 : $stat;
    }
    elseif($test_function == 'empty') {
        $stat = empty($var);
        $stat = ($negate) ? $stat^1 : $stat;
    }
    elseif (!function_exists($test_function)) {
        $stat = false; 
        trigger_error("$test_function() is not a valid function");
    }
    $stat = ($stat) ? true : false;
    return $stat;
}
$a = '';
$b = '15';

test_ref($a,'empty',true);  //False
test_ref($a,'is_int');  //False
test_ref($a,'is_numeric');  //False
test_ref($b,'empty',true);  //true
test_ref($b,'is_int');  //False
test_ref($b,'is_numeric');  //false
test_ref($unset,'is_numeric');  //false
test_ref($b,'is_number');  //returns false, with an error.
?>
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