Weird PHP behavior: won't assign the integer 8 to a variable

Question

I think I just encountered the strangest \'bug\' I\'ve ever encountered in my short developer life. It seems like I just can\'t assign the value eight to any variable. For exemp

Answer 1

if you prefix your numbers with a zero (0) they are interpreted as octal numbers. 7 is the highest octal number. there’s also 0x for hexadecimal numbers (up to 15/F)

how to fix: just don’t prefix with 0 ;)