Why does PHP consider 0 to be equal to a string?

Question

I have the following piece of code:

$item[\'price\'] = 0;
/* Code to get item information goes in here */
if($item[\'price\'] == \'e\') {
    $item[\'price\'         


        

Answer 1

You should use === instead of ==, because the ordinary operator does not compare the types. Instead it will attempt to typecast the items.

Meanwhile the === takes in consideration type of items.

• === means "equals",
• == means "eeeeh .. kinda looks like"