From: Dan Trainor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 

> Hello, all -
> 
> I've been looking around for a function that would tell me if a $value
> in a $key=>$value array was empty, and I could not find one.  So I
> decided to make my own.  Even if I am re-inventing the wheel, 
> I thought that the practice might be good for me.
> 
> However, my function doesn't *quite* work, and I'm having a difficult
> time finding out why.  The code is as follows:
> 
> function findMissingVals($workingArray) {
>       $newcount = count($workingArray);
>       for ($i = 0; $i <= $newcount; $i++) {
>               if (empty($workingArray['$i'])) {
>                       return 1;
>               }
>       }
> }
> 
> So it takes in $workingArray as an array, runs a loop, checks $i, yada
> yada.  The thing is, that sometimes the function does not 
> return 1, even when it should.
> 
> I was hoping some experienced eyes could take a gander at 
> this and give me some pointers.

PHP doesn't eval code in single-quotes, so what you want to do is
simply:

if (empty($workingArray[$i])) {
        return 1;
}

With the single-quotes, it's looking for the string $i as a key.

HTH!

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