From 2b7c9b7020f15384fa8fd47b062057d2553287c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: smiley <codemasher@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2025 21:31:41 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] :octocat: remove remaining instances of empty()

---
 src/Common/GenericGFPoly.php  | 2 +-
 src/Decoder/DecoderResult.php | 2 +-
 src/Detector/Detector.php     | 2 +-
 src/Output/QREps.php          | 2 +-
 src/Output/QRMarkupSVG.php    | 4 ++--
 src/Output/QRStringJSON.php   | 2 +-
 src/QRCode.php                | 2 +-
 7 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/Common/GenericGFPoly.php b/src/Common/GenericGFPoly.php
index 5f8160958..5c0b63b87 100644
--- a/src/Common/GenericGFPoly.php
+++ b/src/Common/GenericGFPoly.php
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ final class GenericGFPoly{
 	public function __construct(array $coefficients, int|null $degree = null){
 		$degree ??= 0;
 
-		if(empty($coefficients)){
+		if($coefficients === []){
 			throw new QRCodeException('arg $coefficients is empty');
 		}
 
diff --git a/src/Decoder/DecoderResult.php b/src/Decoder/DecoderResult.php
index a683b5029..d7117d435 100644
--- a/src/Decoder/DecoderResult.php
+++ b/src/Decoder/DecoderResult.php
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ final class DecoderResult{
 	 */
 	public function __construct(iterable|null $properties = null){
 
-		if(!empty($properties)){
+		if($properties !== null){
 
 			foreach($properties as $property => $value){
 
diff --git a/src/Detector/Detector.php b/src/Detector/Detector.php
index e0aa5d0ab..e66fe398c 100644
--- a/src/Detector/Detector.php
+++ b/src/Detector/Detector.php
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ final class Detector{
 		$alignmentPattern   = null;
 
 		// Anything above version 1 has an alignment pattern
-		if(!empty($provisionalVersion->getAlignmentPattern())){
+		if($provisionalVersion->getAlignmentPattern() !== []){
 			// Guess where a "bottom right" finder pattern would have been
 			$bottomRightX = ($topRight->getX() - $topLeft->getX() + $bottomLeft->getX());
 			$bottomRightY = ($topRight->getY() - $topLeft->getY() + $bottomLeft->getY());
diff --git a/src/Output/QREps.php b/src/Output/QREps.php
index 4ad93f4cd..e5aed9785 100644
--- a/src/Output/QREps.php
+++ b/src/Output/QREps.php
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ class QREps extends QROutputAbstract{
 
 		foreach($paths as $M_TYPE => $path){
 
-			if(empty($path)){
+			if($path === []){
 				continue;
 			}
 
diff --git a/src/Output/QRMarkupSVG.php b/src/Output/QRMarkupSVG.php
index 9d14cff7a..d1bbfeff8 100644
--- a/src/Output/QRMarkupSVG.php
+++ b/src/Output/QRMarkupSVG.php
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ class QRMarkupSVG extends QRMarkup{
 	protected function createMarkup(bool $saveToFile):string{
 		$svg = $this->header();
 
-		if(!empty($this->options->svgDefs)){
+		if($this->options->svgDefs !== ''){
 			$svg .= sprintf('<defs>%1$s%2$s</defs>%2$s', $this->options->svgDefs, $this->eol);
 		}
 
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ class QRMarkupSVG extends QRMarkup{
 
 			$path = implode($this->eol, $chonks);
 
-			if(empty($path)){
+			if($path === ''){
 				continue;
 			}
 
diff --git a/src/Output/QRStringJSON.php b/src/Output/QRStringJSON.php
index 35d24ad60..a0274ef03 100644
--- a/src/Output/QRStringJSON.php
+++ b/src/Output/QRStringJSON.php
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ class QRStringJSON extends QROutputAbstract{
 			}
 		}
 
-		if(!empty($matrixRow['modules'])){
+		if($matrixRow['modules'] !== []){
 			return $matrixRow;
 		}
 
diff --git a/src/QRCode.php b/src/QRCode.php
index 4a0c1b95b..5e469fe72 100755
--- a/src/QRCode.php
+++ b/src/QRCode.php
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ class QRCode{
 	protected function initOutputInterface(QRMatrix $matrix):QROutputInterface{
 		$outputInterface = $this->options->outputInterface;
 
-		if(empty($outputInterface) || !class_exists($outputInterface)){
+		if(!class_exists($outputInterface)){
 			throw new QRCodeOutputException('invalid output class');
 		}