[ciapug] weakly typed languages, etc.

[carl-olsen at mchsi.com]

Of course, I forgot to qualify that by saying "PHP books".

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From: carl-olsen at mchsi.com
> I've noticed a lot of books do a MySQL query like so "SELECT * FROM table WHERE 
> id = '1'".
> 
> If PHP did not convert that quoted number into an integer, it would throw an 
> error.
> 
> Most other databases would through an error if you put quotes around an integer 
> in the WHERE clause.
> 
> 
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: carl-olsen at mchsi.com
> > concatenate "s" to the beginning of each string, then do the comparison, and 
> > finally strip "s" from the beginning of each string.  Actually, adding any 
> > "alpha" character to the string will prevent PHP from converting it to a 
> number.
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