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Re:Why 1 && 2 == 2 by mattparlane on Thursday July 18, 2013 @11:32PM (#6068166)
Came here to say this. If you use var_dump you can see it's coercing the result to a bool.

    $ php -r 'var_dump(1 && 2);'
    bool(true)
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Re:Why 1 && 2 == 2 by RossM on Friday July 19, 2013 @06:44AM (#6069320)
Exactly, it's not that bizarre. PHP assumes when you're using && you're going to have a boolean outcome.

The odd bit is that casting a boolean to a string[0] with echo coerces the result to (string) "1" for true and (string) "" for false.

[0]: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#langu...

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