Re: find with null

Hi all,

I disagree with euromark, the difference between a null and an empty
string can be found by using the '===' operator. And if you want to know
whether a variable is defined you use PHP's isset() function.

Yours,

Maurits van der Schee

On 10/04/2010 03:35 PM, euromark wrote:
> you are forgetting the most important factor
> you are NOT working with JAVA or type safe languages
> you are working with PHP and PHP cannot use NULL as value. NULL means:
> not defined
>
> as you can see with your above examples, the results are not what you
> expected
> its not the fault of CakePHP but PHP itself.
>
> i hope that clarifies it
>
> On 4 Okt., 15:26, lyba<l...@poczta.fm> wrote:
>> forgot an objection:
>> - when field contains reference to another object (object_id), it is
>> null when nonexistent or deleted
>>
>> This is situation where above condition would need to be applied as
>> this is where null is appropriate value to work with
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