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To: Robert Landers <landers.robert@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Array functions with strict comparison
From: craig@craigfrancis.co.uk (Craig Francis)

On 14 Nov 2023, at 17:49, Robert Landers <landers.robert@gmail.com> =
wrote:
> One of the most beautiful things about PHP is that null =3D=3D 0 =3D=3D =
false, or '5' =3D=3D 5 =3D=3D 5.0, or 1 =3D=3D true =3D=3D 'hello =
world', which is so incredibly handy in web-dev that to ignore it is =
inviting bugs. Headers may or may not be set, form values may or may not =
be set, JSON documents may or may not be missing keys/values, etc. How =
everything is coerced is extremely well documented and very obvious =
after working with PHP for a while.


Sorry, can't help myself... unless you dare to pass NULL to trim(), or =
urlencode(), or htmlspecialchars(), or preg_match(), etc, etc.

:-)

Craig=