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Re: A little tip [message #177453 is a reply to message #177451]

Fri, 30 March 2012 20:55

Doug Miller
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Thomas Mlynarczyk <thomas(at)mlynarczyk-webdesign(dot)de> wrote in news:jl554d$1s6$1
@news.albasani.net:

> Shelly schrieb:
>
>> $val = TRUE;
>
>> $val &= TRUE;
>>
>> which is identical to
>>
>> $val = $val && TRUE;
>
> No. &= is a bitwise operator while && means the logical AND operator. So
> when you do $val &= TRUE, PHP is trying to do TRUE & TRUE, but since
> bitwise operators only work with integers, TRUE is first coerced into
> the integer 1. So the operation ends up as 1 & 1 yielding the integer 1.
> Thus, $val = 1. The === operator checks the type of the operands which
> are int and bool and thus not the same, while == tries to convert the
> operands into something "comparable" and since they are both "truish"
> the result is TRUE here.

More precisely, the reason for the difference is that == means "equivalent" and === means
"identical". Since one value is integer and the other value is Boolean, they are equivalent
but not identical.

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		A little tip By: Shelly[1] on Fri, 30 March 2012 17:02
		Re: A little tip By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 30 March 2012 17:20
		Re: A little tip By: Shelly[1] on Fri, 30 March 2012 18:18
		Re: A little tip By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 30 March 2012 20:19
		Re: A little tip By: Thomas Mlynarczyk on Fri, 30 March 2012 20:30
		Re: A little tip By: Doug Miller on Fri, 30 March 2012 20:55
		Re: A little tip By: Shelly[1] on Fri, 30 March 2012 20:55
		Re: A little tip By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 30 March 2012 21:07
		Re: A little tip By: Jerry Stuckle on Sat, 31 March 2012 14:05
		Re: A little tip By: Shelly[1] on Sat, 31 March 2012 15:27
		Re: A little tip By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Tue, 03 April 2012 13:52
		Re: A little tip By: Shelly[1] on Tue, 03 April 2012 14:20
		Re: A little tip By: Doug Miller on Fri, 30 March 2012 19:36
		Re: A little tip By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 30 March 2012 20:21
		Re: A little tip By: Doug Miller on Fri, 30 March 2012 20:52
		Re: A little tip By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 30 March 2012 21:08
		Re: A little tip By: Shelly[1] on Fri, 30 March 2012 21:22
		Re: A little tip By: Mr. B-o-B on Fri, 30 March 2012 23:00
		Re: A little tip By: Scott Johnson on Sat, 31 March 2012 03:33
		Re: A little tip By: Shelly[1] on Fri, 30 March 2012 21:20
		Re: A little tip By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Tue, 03 April 2012 13:56
		Re: A little tip By: Shelly[1] on Tue, 03 April 2012 14:20
		Re: A little tip By: Michael Fesser on Sat, 31 March 2012 03:04
		Re: A little tip By: Jerry Stuckle on Sat, 31 March 2012 03:31
		Re: A little tip By: Scott Johnson on Sat, 31 March 2012 03:35
		Re: A little tip By: Jerry Stuckle on Sat, 31 March 2012 03:53
		Re: A little tip By: Doug Miller on Sat, 31 March 2012 11:58
		Re: A little tip By: Jerry Stuckle on Sat, 31 March 2012 13:05
		Re: A little tip By: alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX on Mon, 02 April 2012 07:42
		Re: A little tip By: M. Strobel on Mon, 02 April 2012 08:22
		Re: A little tip By: Shelly[1] on Mon, 02 April 2012 12:15
		Re: A little tip By: M. Strobel on Mon, 02 April 2012 12:27
		Re: A little tip By: Shelly[1] on Mon, 02 April 2012 13:40
		Re: A little tip By: M. Strobel on Mon, 02 April 2012 21:43

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