is this a legal statement?

[Anon]

$Faculty_Page->getFaculty_byName($_GET["name"]);

[theslinky]

It is legal provided:

1) Faculty_Page is a proper instance of a class
2) getFaculty_byName is a valid function within the Faculty_Page instance
3) getFaculty_byName accepts a first argument
4) there exists a GET variable called "name"

if $_GET['name'] is not always present, i'd do this:

if(isset($GET['name'])) {
$Faculty_Page->getFaculty_byName($GET["name"]);
}
else {
// name variable not present.. let's pass in an empty value
$Faculty_Page->getFaculty_byName("");
}

this will prevent PHP warnings from coming up

-sridhar