Best practices for check result in ActiveRecord: count($models) or $models!==null

Yii 2.0 General Discussions
1

Hello:




$m = Post::find(1);

if(count($m))

{

   //do something

}

VS




$m = Post::find(1);

if($m!==null)

{

   //do something

}

Which is best/safest?

2 



$m = Post::findOne(1);

if($m)

{

   //do something

}
3

Patrick Jones is correct. It’s the simplest check possible.