Zesty Ping never learned === apparently. This one's for you Zesty: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.comparison.php
"===" introduced type facing in php4 so it is a moot point or just poor reading skills on some developers parts if they missed this essential comparison operator... Anthony Wlodarski 646-285-0500 x230 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary Mort Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 5:14 AM To: NYPHP Talk Subject: Re: [nyphp-talk] Why do "cool kids" choose PHP to build websites instead of Java Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > % cat equality.php > <?php > > $a = 0; > $b = "eggs"; > $c = "spam"; > > print ($a == $b) ? "a == b\n" : "a != b\n"; > print ($b == $c) ? "b == c\n" : "b != c\n"; > print ($a == $c) ? "a == c\n" : "a != c\n"; > print ($a == $d) ? "a == d\n" : "a != d\n"; > print ($b == $d) ? "b == d\n" : "b != d\n"; > print ($c == $d) ? "c == d\n" : "c != d\n"; > ?> > I don't see this as a problem, basically the issue being raised is: PHP does not have strong typing, this 0, NULL, and false are all equivalent(add a $d=false; to the definitions and everything still comes out with the same result). However, knowing that these 3 values are considered the same, you can replace 2 equal signs with 3, ===, and get the output your expecting. _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
