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Bug #15407 The " == " op does not work
Submitted: 2002-02-06 16:00 UTC Modified: 2002-02-06 16:57 UTC
Votes:1
Avg. Score:5.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:0 of 0 (0.0%)
From: piapoco at excite dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Variables related
PHP Version: 4.1.1 OS: Windows 2000
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2002-02-06 16:00 UTC] piapoco at excite dot com 
I'm using Apache and IIS 5.

When I use the comparison operator ( == ), my code fails. But when I use a single ( = ), it goes fine. I'm using the plain config that comes with Apache and PHP, but added a line to have .incs treated in the server.

This is the lame code:

if ($myrow == mysql_fetch_array($Recset))
{
  $gIDClient = $HTTP_POST_VARS["IDClient"];
}

The assigment never gets touched and no error messages are issued. 
Weird, ain't it?
Thanks.

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 [2002-02-06 16:08 UTC] jan@php.net 
= is no comparison operator but an assignment operator. since a $var = "bla" is not very error prone of course it "works" but that is logically not what you want. additionally the == operator on arrays is not veryhelpful. I suggest, you read the manual sections about "Assignments", "Comparision", "Arrays" and "Array Functions". No bug -> bogus
 [2002-02-06 16:57 UTC] mfischer@php.net 
>'since a $var = "bla" is not very error prone of course it "works"'

"of course" is not right. the assignment will be done and the value of the expression will be used to determine whether the if() will be true or not. If mysql_fetch_array() would return false or null, the "of course" is not true anymore
 
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