Determining if object property is empty

Question

I feel like I\'m missing something here. I\'ve been using PHP\'s empty() function for quite a while now in determining if a variable is empty. I wanted to use it to

Answer 1

You need to implement __isset() magic method.

__isset() is triggered by calling isset() or empty() on inaccessible properties.

public function __isset($property){
    return isset($this->$property);
}