#43339 [Opn->Bgs]: 2 == true returns true is confusing.

ID: 43339 Updated by: johannes@php.net Reported By: ken at smallboxsoftware dot net -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: Feature/Change Request PHP Version: 5.2.5 New Comment: Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php That's part of PHP's type system. You might want to use === isntead of ==. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-11-19 21:46:49] ken at smallboxsoftware dot net Description: ------------ It is not very intuitive to me that 2 == true returns true. Especially since echo true displays 1 on the screen. I would rather see a boolean casted to an integer than an integer casted to a boolean during comparison, but this would probably cause compatibility issues. Failing that, perhaps if echoing a boolean value it should display either true or false instead of 0 or 1? Then you wouldn't be left thinking that these are integers at their core as they are in C. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=43339&edit=1