What is the difference between null and empty?

Question

I am new to the concept of empty and null. Whilst I have endeavoured to understand the difference between them, I am more confused. I came across an article at http://www.tu

Answer 1

The empty() is a nice fast way to see if the variable holds any useful info... that is for strings empty() returns true for a string of "" as well as a null string.

So you can write something like this:

if (! empty($name)) echo $name;

More info see here: PHP: empty()