Posted by Geoff Berrow on 07/05/06 10:39

Message-ID: <4h19smF1ldsruU1@individual.net> from Paul Lautman contained
the following:

>Could you explain your statement
>
>> can't do if( Astring == Bstring) must use strcmp()
>
>I often compare strings in an if statement?

So do I. It may be something to do with this:

http://uk.php.net/strcmp

From the user notes...

When we make a comparison with == php automaticly converts strings to
integers when either side of the comparison is an integer, f.e.:
<?
$value = 0;
if($value == "submit") {
echo "Let's submit";
}
?>
Above would be succesful, since "submit" is converted to an integer (eq
0) and the equation is would return true; (that's why (1 == "1submit")
would also return true)

That's why we should use strcmp or === (checks type also), for string
comparisons.
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