Posted by Mike Ford on 10/01/12 11:05

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On 10 January 2005 21:20, Chadwick, Russell wrote:

> The function this is from sometimes uses $_POST or $_GET input, so
> sometimes its comparing 1337 with '1337' and === would break that.
>
> so I'll have to use something like:
>
> if (($value == $curval) && !(is_string ($curval) && ($value == 0)))

I would cast both sides of the comparison to the same type and then use the
identity operator. So, depending on exactly what kind of comparison you
want (and maybe how safe your data are!), either of:

if ((int)$value === (int)$curval)

if (string)$value === (string)$curval)

Cheers!

Mike

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