On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 5:39 AM, Gary <php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Is there any nice way to convert a string containing either "TRUE" or > "FALSE" to a bool with the appropriate value? I know I can just "if > (strcmp..." but, as the song goes on to say "...ugly, so ugly, it's > ugly"[1] > > Footnotes: > [1] "Mask", Henry Rollins > > -- > Gary > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > You don't need an 'if', and you don't need to add a function call to the stack: $value_to_convert = 'TRUE'; // tested with true, but works with false, too $bool = ('TRUE' == $value_to_convert); This does require that you've sanity checked the value before hand, as your "either "TRUE" or "FALSE"" statement implies. Adam -- Nephtali: PHP web framework that functions beautifully http://nephtaliproject.com
