Detect search criteria

Yii 2.0 General Discussions
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In a search model I am doing

$search = Yii::$app->request->getQueryParam('PersonSearch');

Is there a simple way to know if the any of the search elements have criteria or not. Basically, I’m trying to detect if the are all empty, so none have a criteria.

Alternately, get a count of elements with a criteria

Alternately, list only the elements with a criteria

Right now I’m doing something like

$appliedSearchParams = false;
if(isset($search)){
    foreach ($search as $key => $value) {
        if (strlen($value)>0){
            $appliedSearchParams = true;
            break;
        }
    }
}

Is there a method I’m unaware of that would be better than the above?