On 13/12/2022 14:32, Craig Francis wrote:
Most frameworks return NULL when the user has not provided the value:
$search = $request->input('q'); // Laravel
$search = $request->get('q'); // Symfony
$search = $this->request->getQuery('q'); // CakePHP
$search = $request->getGet('q'); // CodeIgniter
Fair enough.
Although presumably they return null rather than an empty string
precisely so that users can check if the value was provided, without
providing an extra method equivalent to isset($_GET['q']), e.g.
if ( $search === null ) {
render_search_form();
}
elseif ( trim($search) === '' ) {
show_validation_error();
}
else {
perform_search($search);
}
For cases where you don't need that distinction, Laravel, Symfony, and
CakePHP all allow a default to be passed as the second parameter.
Regards,
--
Rowan Tommins
[IMSoP]
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