Well gee, thanks a lot for that.... I can't imagine why 0 == "foo" should be TRUE, but there it is.... I will use === from now on. I was convinced this was related to windows because I've never noticed this behaviour with several years of experience with programming PHP on linux systems. Thanks for your patience, and your answer. Best wishes, Steve "Nadim Attari" <nadim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schreef in bericht news:20040831111350.90008.qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.blueshoes.org/en/developer/php_cheat_sheet/ > ------------------ > > "William.Candillon@xxxxxxxxxx" <william.candillon@xxxxxxxxxx> a écrit dans > le message de news:I3B3VI$0DB29DE9F5BD09BECC716F6E620D2A44@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > According to me it's a very strange problem > Test this please : > $key = '0'; > if($key == 'muppet') > echo 'key is a muppet: ".$key; > else > echo 'key is something else: '.$key; > Because I don't understang why $key return false :( -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php