Re: Can't compare a decrypted variable to a string ?
| From: | Robin Vickery | Date: | Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:17:08 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Can't compare a decrypted variable to a string ? | ||
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On 10/13/05, Graham Anderson <grahama@siren.cc> wrote:
> $realcmd = decrypt($cmd);
[...]
> elseif(decrypt($cmd) == $realcmd)
That's obviously going to succeed no matter what $cmd decrypts into.
It doesn't really tell you anything useful.
> $realcmd = decrypt($cmd); // 'makesmil'
[...]
> if( decrypt($cmd) == 'makesmil')
If this really fails, it means that $cmd doesn't decrypt into
'makesmil'. Are you sure that it's not been padded with spaces or
something?
-robin