PHP Initialising strings as boolean first
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I'm in the habit of initialising variables in PHP to false and then applying whatever (string, boolean, float) value to it later.
Which would you reckon is better?
$name = false;
if (condition == true) {
$name = $something_else;
}
if ($name) { …do something… }
vs.
$name ='';
if (condition == true) {
$name = $something_else;
}
if (!empty($name)) { …do something… }
Which would you reckon can possibly give better performance? Which method would you use?
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