note 73786 deleted from language.operators.logical by colder

Note Submitter: g dot vieri AT gmail dot com ---- seems that are more subtle reasons for two different variations of "and" and "or" operators. see the example: <?php $a="test"; $b=1; $res= $a || $b; echo $res."\n\n"; $a="test"; $b=1; $res= $a or $b; echo $res."\n\n"; ?> If the difference between the or and || operator is only the precedence we can expect the same output from both the "echo" instructions. This is the result: 1 test So seems that the '||' operator convert in "bool" the result of logical expression. This is not the same behaviour of the 'or' operator. You can verify from yourself adding var_dump() before the echo.