Use isset() Instead of strlen()
by Sanju[ Edit ] 2010-02-01 11:21:43
Use isset() Instead of strlen()
When you treat strings as arrays, each character in the string is an element in the array. By determining whether a particular element exists, you can determine whether the string is at least that many characters long.
<?php
if (isset($username[5])) {
// The username is at least six characters long.
}?>
Note that the first character is element 0, so $username[5] is the sixth character in $username.
The reason this is slightly faster than strlen() is complicated. The
strlen() is a function, and
isset() is a language construct.
Generally speaking, calling a function is more expensive than using a language construct.
