Re: [PHP] check if any element of an array is not "empty"

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 2:36 PM, afan pasalic <[email protected]> wrote:

> hi,
> as a result of one calculation I'm receiving an array where elements
> could be 0 or date (as string yyyy-mm-dd hh:ii:ss).
> I have to check if any of elements of the array is "date" or if all
> elements of the array is 0?
>
> If I try array_sum($result) I'll get 0 no matter what (0 + $string = 0).
>
> I know I can do something like:
> foreach($result as $value)
> {
>    if ($value !=0)
>    {
>       $alert = true;
>    }
> }
>
> or
>
> if (in_array($result, '-'))
> {
>    $alert = true;
> }
>
>
> but I was thinking if there is the function does that.


i don think theres a function for that; and to be performance conscience, if
just one occurrence of a date is all you need to know its not all 0's then
break out of the loop once youve found that.

foreach($result as $value)
{
   if ($value !== 0)
   {
      $alert = true;
      break;
   }
}

-nathan