Michael wrote:
I understand that the integer 0 and FALSE are different and I read the manual 
so many times my head hurts, heh.

There are a few ways to work around this, probably more than I know. (according to the 
documentation for strrpos() you could test the return from stripos() for is_bool before 
using it), or (perhaps, cast the return from stripos() to a boolean, although integer 0 
probably casts to false :/, I honestly didn't test this {see >>>}), or (easiest 
solution...just suck up and use !== FALSE all the time :D )

I'm not understanding what you need to work around. What's wrong with using !== false?

My point in posting this was threefold,
1) to help others who may not know that stripos() returns an INTEGER 0 when the 
needle is found at the beginning of haystack, and/or don't realize the 
implications of that.

The manual page for strpos and any other function that may return 0 or false clearly make this point.

2) My main point is that !== works, so should ===. If !== knows the difference 
between integer 0 and boolean FALSE, why doesn't ===?

It does, but it also knows the difference between 1 and true, 2 and true, 3 and true, etc.

3) to get feedback from the community and deepen my understanding of PHP.

I'm trying ;)

-Stut

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