Re: Yeah I'm sortof a noob

TY. That should help greatly! "Shawn McKenzie" <nospam@mckenzies.net> wrote in message news:F4.44.48736.09C4EE84@pb1.pair.com... > Frank Stanovcak wrote: >> I'm trying to follow the three precepts of accepting user entries... >> 1. never trust it. >> 2. never trust it. >> 3. never trust it ever! >> >> I have one entry that may equal 0 on submission, and if it does is >> tripping >> a bool false result, so I came up with this work around. However when I >> put >> this in my code the page fails to load. What did I do wrong, and please >> be >> specific. I already know I'm stupid, and to answer the question. The >> extra >> ';' are for my clarity to know that is the end of the if or foreach >> statement. Plus it carried over from java script and keeps me out of >> trouble as I flip between the two. >> >> I am looking for the instance when the key is 'ExtraCases' as that is the >> field that will possibly be zero on submission. >> >> //check to make sure all the entries passed >> foreach($Filtered as $ThisKey => $ThisVar) { >> if($ThisVar == FALSE) { >> if(($ThisKey == 'ExtraCases') and >> (filter_has_var(INPUT_POST,'ExtraCases'))) { >> if($_POST['ExtraCases'] == 0) { >> $noProb = TRUE; >> } else { >> $Continue = FALSE; >> $WrongData[$ThisKey] = TRUE; >> }; >> } else { >> $Continue = FALSE; >> $WrongData[$ThisKey] = TRUE; >> }; >> }; >> }; >> >> > > Well, I haven't studied your code to see the problem, but I'm replying > to your "workaround". You should be able to code this without the > workaround if you use the correct comparison operators. > > == is untyped value comparison > === is a strict comparison (must be same value AND same type, boolean, > string, int, etc...) > > These are correct: > 0 == false > '' == false > null == false > 69 == true > 'false' == true > > These are not: > 0 === false > '' === false > null === false > 69 === true > 'false' === true > > -Shawn > > >