RE: [PHP] PHP newbie question

On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Neil Zanella wrote: > > You are right. According to the PHP manual there is no boolean type > as none is listed in chapter 2.6 but there are variables called TRUE and > FALSE which evaluate to a true value and a false value respectively as > indicated in chapter 2.8. Thanks for quoting from chapter 9. I should > be paying more attention to the manual. > > BTW is there a way to determine the exact size of the integer type in PHP? > > Thanks, > > Neil > Actually, the PHP manual is lying. There is in fact a Boolean data type in PHP 4, it's just that no one's gotten around to fixing the manual. And true and false are constants in the same manner as 5 and "Hello World!". Integers are signed longs (32 bits) in PHP. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ignacio@openservices.net>