Posted by "Jon Westcot" on 01/04/06 08:30

Hi JanBro:

Quick guess: are the strings the same length? I've been bitten many
times by string comparisons that appear to be identical but which fail due
to trailing spaces, other "invisible" (i.e., non-printing) characters, and
the like.

Hope this helps.

Jon


----- Original Message -----
From: "janbro" <janbro@web.de>
To: <php-general@lists.php.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 11:22 PM
Subject: [PHP] Comparing of string


> Hello List
>
> I've got the following little code:
>
> $formCheck= $_GET['formCheck'];
> $SollKombination = $_SESSION['zufall'];
>
> echo "$SollKombination<br>$formCheck";
> print gettype($formCheck);
> echo "---";
> print gettype($SollKombination);
>
>
> if ($SollKombination == $formCheck){
> echo "test";
> }
>
> To give you some background: This code is supposed to check if a user has
tried to login via my form.
>
> Which gives me the following output:
>
> ZL0X~TT4PQ%0~R0OXPRUHY7E&!4~W337J71V4WDDI6$GS9480XP0TNP2I$1YX75S
> ZL0X~TT4PQ%0~R0OXPRUHY7E&!4~W337J71V4WDDI6$GS9480XP0TNP2I$1YX75S
> string---string
>
> Everything the way it's supposed to be....
>
> What I don't get is, why isn't the if statement true? Shouldn't it show
test as well? Where is my mistake?
> I run PHP 5.1.1 on Windows. On my Win PHP 5.0 this code works proper, but
not here ?!?
>
> thx JanBro
>
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