Posted by My Pet Programmer on 12/28/07 17:35

rynato said:
> uh, nevermind. I figured it out. For posterity's sake here's the
> solution:
>
> instead of:
>
> if ($value)
>
> I changed that conditional to:
>
> if ($value != null || $value === 0)
>
> the value was passed into the function correctly (it still equalled 0)
> but for some reason 'if ($value)' was not sufficient for PHP to
> distinguish between a value of 0 and no value at all. Can someone
> explain this distinction to me? Thanks.
Binary notation: 1 is true, zero is false.

Extrapolated into most programming languages, 0 = false, all other
numbers usually = true when evaluated in boolean expressions

~A!

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