"Robert Janeczek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> is there any way that string 'false' (and its variations with capital
> letters) could be interpeted as boolean of value false? i have xml
> configuration file that has some switches (true/false) in it. when i use
> this values in functions that require booleans i get true every time (as
> string isn`t empty) :/ i hoped that at least with explicit type cast i could
> go around this problem, but i didn`t help.
> how about adding this special case to conversion rules? creating if`s around
> such code doesn`t make me happy at all :]
What do eval('false') and eval('true') return? You can probably just do
eval(xmlText) to get the results you're looking for. (Just beware that the
xmlText actually contains one of the values "true" or "false", and not some
malicious php code.)
Derrell
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