[ciapug] weakly typed languages, etc.

[David Champion]

That's not being evaluated by PHP, it's being evaluated by MySQL. 
Different issue.

If you go into MySQL and type the query with the quotes around the value 
it will work just fine.

-dc

carl-olsen at mchsi.com wrote:
> 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.
> 
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>  -------------- 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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