“Notice: Undefined variable”, “Notice: Undefined index”, and “Notice: Undefined offset” using PHP

Question

I\'m running a PHP script and continue to receive errors like:

Notice: Undefined variable: my_variable_name in C:\\wamp\\www\\mypath\\index.php on line 10

Answer 1

I didn't want to disable notice because it's helpful, but wanted to avoid too much typing.

My solution was this function:

function ifexists($varname)
{
  return(isset($$varname)?$varname:null);
}

So if I want to reference to $name and echo if exists, I simply write:

For array elements:

function ifexistsidx($var,$index)
{
  return(isset($var[$index])?$var[$index]:null);
}

In page if I want to refer to $_REQUEST['name']: