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http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.null.php
NULL
The special NULL value represents a variable with no value. NULL is the only possible value of type NULL. A variable is considered to be null if: it has been assigned the constant NULL.
Syntax
There is only one value of type null, and that is the case-insensitive constant NULL.
<?php $var = NULL; ?> See also the functions is_null() and unset().
Casting to NULL
Casting a variable to null using (unset) $var will not remove the variable or unset its value. It will only return a NULL value.
NULL
ryan at trezshard dot com 01-Jun-2011 08:31 This simple shorthand seems to work for setting new variables to NULL: <?php
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$Var; ?> The above code will set $Var to NULL UPDATE: After further testing it appears the code only works in the global scope and does not work inside functions. <?php function Example(){ $Var; var_dump($Var); } ?> Would not work as expected. quickpick 22-Apr-2011 03:36 Note: empty array is converted to null by non-strict equal '==' comparison. Use is_null() or '===' if there is possible of getting empty array. $a = array(); $a == null <== return true $a === null < == return false is_null($a) <== return false james 20-Sep-2007 08:25 A little speed test: <?php $v = NULL; $s = microtime(TRUE); for($i=0; $i<1000; $i++) { is_null($v); } print microtime(TRUE)-$s; print "<br>";
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$s = microtime(TRUE); for($i=0; $i<1000; $i++) { $v===NULL; } print microtime(TRUE)-$s; ?> Results: 0.017982006072998 0.0005950927734375 Using "===" is 30x quicker than is_null(). nl-x at bita dot nl 09-Jul-2007 10:33 Watch out. You can define a new constant with the name NULL with define("NULL","FOO");. But you must use the function constant("NULL"); to get it's value. NULL without the function call to the constant() function will still retrieve the special type NULL value. Within a class there is no problem, as const NULL="Foo"; will be accessible as myClass::NULL. cdcchen at hotmail dot com 25-May-2006 08:17 empty() is_null() !isset() $var = ""; empty($var) is true. is_null($var) is false. !isset($var) is false. 06-Jan-2006 01:51 // Difference between "unset($a);" and "$a = NULL;" : <?php // unset($a) $a = 5; $b = & $a; unset($a); print "b $b "; // b 5 // $a = NULL; (better I think)
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$a = 5; $b = & $a; $a = NULL; print "b $b "; // b print(! isset($b)); // 1 ?> poutri_j at epitech dot net 26-Jul-2005 04:56 if you declare something like this : <?php class toto { public $a = array(); public function load() { if ($this->a == null) // ==> the result is true $a = other_func(); } } ?> be carefull, that's strange but an empty array is considered as a null variable rizwan_nawaz786 at hotmail dot com 18-Oct-2004 09:22 Hi Rizwan Here Null is the Constant in PHP. it is use to assign a empty value to the variable like $a=NULL; At this time $a has is NULL or $a has no value; When we declaire a veriable in other languages than that veriable has some value depending on the value of memory location at which it is pointed but in php when we declaire a veriable than php assign a NULL to a veriable.
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dward at maidencreek dot com 12-Nov-2001 03:52 Nulls are almost the same as unset variables and it is hard to tell the difference without creating errors from the interpreter: <?php $var = NULL; ?> isset($var) is FALSE empty($var) is TRUE is_null($var) is TRUE isset($novar) is FALSE empty($novar) is TRUE is_null($novar) gives an Undefined variable error $var IS in the symbol table (from get_defined_vars()) $var CAN be used as an argument or an expression. So, in most cases I found that we needed to use !isset($var) intead of is_null($var) and then set $var = NULL if the variable needs to be used later to guarantee that $var is a valid variable with a NULL value instead of being undefined. tbdavis at greyshirt dot net 11-Oct-2001 04:36 Unlike the relational model, NULL in PHP has the following properties: NULL == NULL is true, NULL == FALSE is true. And in line with the relational model, NULL == TRUE fails.
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