Re: Simple script but confusion with comparing strings

From:	Stuart	Date:	Sun, 01 Feb 2004 00:13:32 +0000
Subject:	Re: Simple script but confusion with comparing strings
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Ryan A wrote:

$somecontent = strtoupper(md5($type));

compared to...

if(strcmp($contents,md5("1"))==0)

Comparing uppercase to lowercase (md5 generates a lowercase string). Either remove the strtoupper when first generated, strtoupper the md5 result in the comparison or use strcasecmp instead of strcmp. -- Stuart