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Posted by Toby A Inkster on 01/06/08 23:19
A Bit Narked wrote:
> And yet you can echo true. The output is '1'.
No -- you can't echo a boolean in PHP. Why you try, the boolean is
implicitly cast to a string.
This:
echo $bool;
is actually executed as if you coded this:
echo (string)$bool;
If you look up the manual on type casting, you'll find that FALSE is cast
to an empty string, and TRUE is cast to a non-empty string.
If you cast to an integer instead of a string, then you'll find that FALSE
is cast to 0, which seems to be what you want.
echo (int)FALSE;
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