I've come across this recently too. I think what's happening is that PHP is converting "NFH" to an integer, which would be zero in this case. Thus zero == zero is true...
Try doing type checking too: if ($EA === "NFH") Martin > I am so frustrated at the moment with coding. I had an odd > error with > some PHP coding. And in the process I came across this error. > > Please try this out!! Because for me on my machine it does the first > part of the if statement. I can make a work around in my code to fix > the error. BUT I would rather know why this is evaluating > incorrectly. > > <?PHP > > $EA = 0; > > if ($EA == "NFH") > { > echo "<br>EA is Equal To NFH see $EA<br>"; > } > else > { > echo "<br>EA is NOT EQUAL to NFH see $EA<br>"; > } > ?> > > Thanks in advance. > > > Jonathan Pitcher > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php