ID:               39831
 Updated by:       colder@[...].net
 Reported By:      florian at in dot tum dot de
-Status:           Open
+Status:           Closed
 Bug Type:         Documentation problem
 Operating System: any
 PHP Version:      Irrelevant
-Assigned To:      
+Assigned To:      colder
 New Comment:

This bug has been fixed in the documentation's XML sources. Since the
online and downloadable versions of the documentation need some time
to get updated, we would like to ask you to be a bit patient.

Thank you for the report, and for helping us make our documentation
better.




Previous Comments:
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[2006-12-14 11:40:26] florian at in dot tum dot de

Description:
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Correction:
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the manual's comparison tables (appendix P) say that the loose
comparison between the EMPTY STRING and NULL evaluates to FALSE, but
actually this is not correct.
And therefore that evaluation does espacially not match the behavior of
is_null()...

is_null("")        //=>  FALSE
("" == NULL)    //=>  TRUE, not false


(I've tested it quite intensely, on linux as well as on windows,
different PHP versions etc.)

(btw., I've posted this issue as a note on the documentation page,
sorry for that. could any-one delet it, maybe? thanks.) 


Reproduce code:
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print( ("" == null) ? "true <br /> " : "false <br />" );
print( (is_null("")) ? "true <br /> " : "false <br />" );

Expected result:
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false
false

Actual result:
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true
false


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