How do the PHP equality (== double equals) and identity (=== triple equals) comparison operators differ?
What is the difference between == and === ?
== comparison work? === comparison work? What would be some useful examples?
Difference between == and ===
The difference between the loosely == equal operator and the strict === identical operator is exactly explained in the manual:
Comparison Operators
┌──────────┬───────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ Example │ Name │ Result │ ├──────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │$a == $b │ Equal │ TRUE if $a is equal to $b after type juggling. │ │$a === $b │ Identical │ TRUE if $a is equal to $b, and they are of the same type. │ └──────────┴───────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Loosely == equal comparison
If you are using the == operator, or any other comparison operator which uses loosely comparison such as != , <> or == , you always have to look at the context to see what, where and why something gets converted to understand what is going on.
Converting rules
Type comparison table
As reference and example you can see the comparison table in the manual:
Loose comparisons with ==
┌─────────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬─────────┬───────┬───────┐ │ │ TRUE │ FALSE │ 1 │ 0 │ -1 │ "1" │ "0" │ "-1" │ NULL │ array() │ "php" │ "" │ ├─────────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼─────────┼───────┼───────┤ │ TRUE │ TRUE │ FALSE │ TRUE │ FALSE │ TRUE │ TRUE │ FALSE │ TRUE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ TRUE │ FALSE │ │ FALSE │ FALSE │ TRUE │ FALSE │ TRUE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ TRUE │ FALSE │ TRUE │ TRUE │ FALSE │ TRUE │ │ 1 │ TRUE │ FALSE │ TRUE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ TRUE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ │ 0 │ FALSE │ TRUE │ FALSE │ TRUE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ TRUE │ FALSE │ TRUE │ FALSE │ TRUE │ TRUE │ │ -1 │ TRUE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ TRUE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ TRUE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ │ "1" │ TRUE │ FALSE │ TRUE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ TRUE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ │ "0" │ FALSE │ TRUE │ FALSE │ TRUE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ TRUE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ │ "-1" │ TRUE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ TRUE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ TRUE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ │ NULL │ FALSE │ TRUE │ FALSE │ TRUE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ TRUE │ TRUE │ FALSE │ TRUE │ │ array() │ FALSE │ TRUE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ TRUE │ TRUE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ │ "php" │ TRUE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ TRUE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ TRUE │ FALSE │ │ "" │ FALSE │ TRUE │ FALSE │ TRUE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ TRUE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ TRUE │ └─────────┴───────┴───────┴───────┴───────┴───────┴───────┴───────┴───────┴───────┴─────────┴───────┴───────┘
Strict === identical comparison
If you are using the === operator, or any other comparison operator which uses strict comparison such as !== or === , then you can always be sure that the types won't magically change, because there will be no converting going on. So with strict comparison the type and value have to be the same, not only the value.
Type comparison table
As reference and example you can see the comparison table in the manual:
Strict comparisons with ===
┌─────────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬─────────┬───────┬───────┐ │ │ TRUE │ FALSE │ 1 │ 0 │ -1 │ "1" │ "0" │ "-1" │ NULL │ array() │ "php" │ "" │ ├─────────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼─────────┼───────┼───────┤ │ TRUE │ TRUE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ │ FALSE │ FALSE │ TRUE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ │ 1 │ FALSE │ FALSE │ TRUE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ │ 0 │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ TRUE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ │ -1 │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ TRUE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ │ "1" │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ TRUE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ │ "0" │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ TRUE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ │ "-1" │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ TRUE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ │ NULL │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ TRUE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ │ array() │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ TRUE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ │ "php" │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ TRUE │ FALSE │ │ "" │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ FALSE │ TRUE │ └─────────┴───────┴───────┴───────┴───────┴───────┴───────┴───────┴───────┴───────┴─────────┴───────┴───────┘
The operator == casts between two different types if they are different, while the === operator performs a 'typesafe comparison'. That means that it will only return true if both operands have the same type and the same value.
Examples:
1 === 1: true
1 == 1: true
1 === "1": false // 1 is an integer, "1" is a string
1 == "1": true // "1" gets casted to an integer, which is 1
"foo" === "foo": true // both operands are strings and have the same value Warning : two instances of the same class with equivalent members do NOT match the === operator. Example:
$a = new stdClass();
$a->foo = "bar";
$b = clone $a;
var_dump($a === $b); // bool(false)
In regards to JavaScript:
The === operator works the same as the == operator, but it requires that its operands have not only the same value, but also the same data type.
For example, the sample below will display 'x and y are equal', but not 'x and y are identical'.
var x = 4;
var y = '4';
if (x == y) {
alert('x and y are equal');
}
if (x === y) {
alert('x and y are identical');
}
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