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Request #46734 New flag to turn off / notify implicit type conversions
Submitted: 2008-12-03 10:40 UTC Modified: 2018-05-05 19:44 UTC
Votes:2
Avg. Score:4.0 ± 1.0
Reproduced:2 of 2 (100.0%)
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From: emarco at uol dot com dot br Assigned:
Status: Wont fix Package: *General Issues
PHP Version: 5.2.6 OS: Any
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2008-12-03 10:40 UTC] emarco at uol dot com dot br 
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That would be nice to be able to turn off any kind of type conversions in PHP. Since I started coding in PHP, I noticed many bugs in my code are due to unexpected type conversions in PHP, things like the string '0' (zero) being considered equal to the boolean false.

If we could turn off this kind of behaviour, or make PHP generate an alert/warning every time it finds itself comparing data of different types, that would be a powerful debugging tool for all of us. 

Thanks!

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 [2012-10-12 20:29 UTC] klaussantana at gmail dot com 
This would resolve your problems:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.comparison.php

Use the IDENTICAL (===) and NOT IDENTICAL (!==) comparsion operators...
 [2018-05-05 19:44 UTC] requinix@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Wont fix -Package: Feature/Change Request +Package: *General Issues
 [2018-05-05 19:44 UTC] requinix@php.net 
Old request is old.

Use strict comparisons.
 
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