[ciapug] weakly typed languages, etc.

[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.


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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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