title: Check and assign value of a PHP object property within an conditional
body: <p>Would the following work in PHP:</p>
  
  <pre><code>if ($test = $object-&gt;property) {
    // Do stuff with $test
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Basically, PHP will still spit out notices even if $object->property isn't set.  I want to see if it's possible to check to see if the value is set and assign a property to a variable within a conditional.  Otherwise, I would have to do something like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>if (isset($object-&gt;property) {
    $test = $object-&gt;property;
    // Do stuff with $test
  }
  </code></pre>