Re: Overwrite value of true or false in PHP

On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 19:14 +0000, Bobby Pejman wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed that the following returns a 1. > > echo (1<2) ? True : False > > I was under the impression that true/false are of type boolean and not int. But in php > anything other than 0 translates to true, meaning a 1. What I am trying to achieve is for a 1 to be > a 1 and a true or false to be a true and false respectively and I do not want to put quotes around > the word true/false either because then it is no longer a boolean but string. > > Is it possible to overwrite php's true/false and declare them as boolean? You often see > in C++, some use Define(). > > Thanks. > The statement you gave does return a boolean value, but what you are doing is printing the resulting value out. PHP converts the boolean to the nearest printable value, which will be a 1 or 0. If you want it to output the value 'True' or 'False' then you need to output a string value. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk