note 88950 rejected from language.types.string by danbrown

Note Submitter: alan at allgo dot com ---- This is an interesting scenario: If I pass: $var1 = 0; if($var1=="some_string") { echo "this returns true only for 0"; } How can it return true when comparing an integer of 0 to any string? My guess is that its reading 0 as false and seeing the string as a "false" integer: hence, false == false. Am I right? The solution is to convert the integer to a string; $var1 = 0; $var1 = (string) $var1; if($var1=="some_string") { echo "this returns false"; }