On 15/05/2010 03:19, Daevid Vincent wrote:
Can someone explain why an integer 0 compared to a string evaluates to
boolean true??

var_dump( (0 == 'heading') );

Yet,

var_dump( (1 == 'heading') );

Is FALSE.

WTF? I would expect the 0 one to be FALSE too.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.conversion

IMO this is a pretty well known gotcha of PHP - you need to use === to check type as well as value
Rich

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