about empty() in php

For empty() you must set var like this:

$var = 'value':

empty($var);

If you use it directly like this :

empty('value');

It is error!

the $var be set under will return TRUE:

• "" (an empty string)
• 0 (0 as an integer)
• "0" (0 as a string)
• NULL
• FALSE
• array() (an empty array)
• var $var; (a variable declared, but without a value in a class)

Come from php menual partly.