Albert Fama

Since I have neglected my blog this week I decided to write a small continuation of the discussion on Types in PHP.
I was helping a fellow coder yesterday, and he was having problems with a simple comparison statement. The situation he found himself in was this:
A $_POST value could either be 0 (zero) or [...]

We have all heard PHP is a loosely typed language. If you are unsure of the meaning of the term “loosely typed” the definition in the PHP manual states (at least for our discussion):
PHP – Manual
The type of a variable is usually not set by the programmer; rather, it is decided at runtime by PHP [...]