note 102681 modified in function.in-array by danbrown

[email protected] Mon, 28 Feb 2011 09:55:27 -0800
Newsgroups php.notes
Message-ID <[email protected]>
strange behaviour of in_array:

If you have an array like:
<?php
$a = array(0,1,2,3,4,5);
in_array("bla", $a) returns true
in_array("bla6", $a) returns true
in_array("6bla", $a) returns false
?>

If you have an array like (without 0):
<?php
$a = array(1,2,3,4,5);
in_array("bla", $a) returns false
in_array("6bla", $a) returns false
in_array("5bla", $a) returns true
?>

so better use strict arg!

--was--
strange behaviour of in_array:

If you have an array like:
$a = array(0,1,2,3,4,5);
in_array("bla", $a) returns true
in_array("bla6", $a) returns true
in_array("6bla", $a) returns false

If you have an array like (without 0):
$a = array(1,2,3,4,5);
in_array("bla", $a) returns false
in_array("6bla", $a) returns false
in_array("5bla", $a) returns true

so better use strict arg!

http://php.net/manual/en/function.in-array.php