PHP - Get bool to echo false when false

Question

The following code doesn\'t print out anything:

$bool_val = (bool)false;
echo $bool_val;

But the following code prints 1:

Answer 1

No, since the other option is modifying the Zend engine, and one would be hard-pressed to call that a "better way".

Edit:

If you really wanted to, you could use an array:

$boolarray = Array(false => 'false', true => 'true');
echo $boolarray[false];