PHP. Check if an array is empty

PHP's built-in empty() function checks to see whether the variable is empty, null, false, or a representation of zero. It doesn't return true just because the value associated with an array entry is false, in this case the array has actual elements in it and that's all that's evaluated.

If you'd like to check whether a particular error condition is set to true in an associative array, you can use the array_keys() function to filter the keys that have their value set to true.

$set_errors = array_keys( $errors, true );

You can then use the empty() function to check whether this array is empty, simultaneously telling you whether there are errors and also which errors have occurred.

Try to check it's size with sizeof if 0 no elements.

From the PHP-documentation:

Returns FALSE if var has a non-empty and non-zero value.

The following things are considered to be empty:

"" (an empty string)
0 (0 as an integer)
0.0 (0 as a float)
"0" (0 as a string)
NULL
FALSE
array() (an empty array)
var $var; (a variable declared, but without a value in a class)

However, empty($error) still returns true, even though nothing is set.

That's not how empty() works. According to the manual, it will return true on an empty array only. Anything else wouldn't make sense.

You can also check it by doing.

if(count($array) > 0)
{
    echo 'Error';
}
else
{
    echo 'No Error';
}

I can't replicate that (php 5.3.6):

php > $error = array();
php > $error['something'] = false;
php > $error['somethingelse'] = false;
php > var_dump(empty($error));
bool(false)

php > $error = array();
php > var_dump(empty($error));
bool(true)
php >

exactly where are you doing the empty() call that returns true?

<?php
if(empty($myarray))
echo"true";
else
echo "false";
?>

function empty() does not work for testing empty arrays! example:

$a=array("","");
if(empty($a)) echo "empty";
else echo "not empty"; //this case is true

a function is necessary:

function is_array_empty($a){
foreach($a as $elm)
if(!empty($elm)) return false;
return true;
}

ok, this is a very old question :) , but i found this thread searching for a solution and i didnt find a good one.

bye (sorry for my english)