You can always use type casting if you want to change the built in behaviour:
http://nl3.php.net/manual/en/language.types.type-juggling.php#language.types .typecasting hence what you ask for is there already. -----Original Message----- From: Charles P. Killmer To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 31/08/2004 18:03 Subject: RE: [PHP-WIN] Strange 'if' test bug? I would think that PHP should make the conversion in the other direction to avoid losing data. In other words, if a conversion is necessary, convert to the data type that can handle the greater variety of data. In this case to strings. It would probably always be to strings though. Charles -----Original Message----- From: Christian Zambrano [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 10:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] Strange 'if' test bug? $key=0; $key=="muppet"?TRUE:FALSE; The reason this last comparison returns true is that since you are comparing an integer with a string, the strings gets converted to an integer and since "muppet" does not have any numeric character it gets converted to 0. In other words as far PHP in concerned you are comparing 0 with 0 which is why the result of comparison is a true statement. Any thoughts on this? Thanks Christian -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
