check if variable empty

If you want to test whether a variable is really NULL, use the identity operator:

$user_id === NULL  // FALSE == NULL is true, FALSE === NULL is false
is_null($user_id)

If you want to check whether a variable is not set:

!isset($user_id)

Or if the variable is not empty, an empty string, zero, ..:

empty($user_id)

If you want to test whether a variable is not an empty string, ! will also be sufficient:

!$user_id

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