It's interesting to note that 'empty()' and 'boolean : if($x)'
are paired as logical opposites, as are 'is_null()' and 'isset()'.
Las siguientes tablas demuestran el comportamiento de los tipos de PHP y los operadores de comparación, tanto para comparaciones flexibles como estrictas. Este suplemento está relacionado también con la sección del manual sobre manipulación de tipos. La inspiración proviene de varios comentarios de usuarios y del trabajo realizado en » BlueShoes.
Antes de usar estas tablas, es importante entender los tipos y sus
significados. Por ejemplo, "42"
es un string
mientras que 42
es un int. false
es
un bool mientras "false"
es un
string.
Nota:
Los formularios HTML no pasan enteros, reales, o booleanos; solo pasan cadenas. Para saber si una cadena es numérica, se puede usar is_numeric().
Nota:
Hacer un simple
if ($x)
mientras que $x no esté definido, generará un error de nivelE_NOTICE
. En lugar de esto, considere el uso de empty() o isset(), y/o inicialice sus variables.
Nota:
Algunas representaciones numéricas pueden resultar en un valor representado por la constante
NAN
. Cualquier comparación flexible o estricta de este valor con cualquier otro valor, incluyendo a sí mismo, exceptotrue
, tendrá un resultadofalse
, (esto es,NAN != NAN
yNAN !== NAN
). Algunos ejemplos de operaciones que producenNAN
sonsqrt(-1)
,asin(2)
, yacosh(0)
.
Expresión | gettype() | empty() | is_null() | isset() | bool : if($x) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
$x = ""; |
string | true |
false |
true |
false |
$x = null; |
NULL | true |
true |
false |
false |
var $x; |
NULL | true |
true |
false |
false |
$x no está definido | NULL | true |
true |
false |
false |
$x = array(); |
array | true |
false |
true |
false |
$x = array('a', 'b'); |
array | false |
false |
true |
true |
$x = false; |
bool | true |
false |
true |
false |
$x = true; |
bool | false |
false |
true |
true |
$x = 1; |
int | false |
false |
true |
true |
$x = 42; |
int | false |
false |
true |
true |
$x = 0; |
int | true |
false |
true |
false |
$x = -1; |
int | false |
false |
true |
true |
$x = "1"; |
string | false |
false |
true |
true |
$x = "0"; |
string | true |
false |
true |
false |
$x = "-1"; |
string | false |
false |
true |
true |
$x = "php"; |
string | false |
false |
true |
true |
$x = "true"; |
string | false |
false |
true |
true |
$x = "false"; |
string | false |
false |
true |
true |
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 |
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 |
It's interesting to note that 'empty()' and 'boolean : if($x)'
are paired as logical opposites, as are 'is_null()' and 'isset()'.
Note that php comparison is not transitive:
"php" == 0 => true
0 == null => true
null == "php" => false
A comparison table for <=,<,=>,> would be nice...
Following are TRUE (tested PHP4&5):
NULL <= -1
NULL <= 0
NULL <= 1
!(NULL >= -1)
NULL >= 0
!(NULL >= 1)
That was a surprise for me (and it is not like SQL, I would like to have the option to have SQL semantics with NULL...).
Be aware of the difference between checking the *value* of an array item, and checking the *existence* of an array item:
<?php
$arr = [
'x' => 0,
'y' => null,
];
isset($arr['x']); // true, same as isset(0)
isset($arr['y']); // false, same as isset(null)
array_key_exists('y', $arr); // true, though the value is null
array_key_exists('z', $arr); // false
Some function to write out your own comparisson table in tsv format. Can be easily modified to add more testcases and/or binary functions. It will test all comparables against each other with all functions.
<?php
$funcs = array(
/* Testing equality */
'eq' => '==',
'ne' => '!=',
'gt' => '>',
'lt' => '<',
'ne2' => '<>',
'lte' => '<=',
'gte' => '>=',
/* Testing identity */
'id' => '===',
'nid' => '!=='
);
class Test {
protected $a;
public $b;
public function __construct($a,$b){
$this->a = $a;
$this->b = $b;
}
public function getab(){
return $this->a.",". $this->b;
}
}
$tst1 = new Test(1,2);
$tst2 = new Test(1,2);
$tst3 = new Test(2,2);
$tst4 = new Test(1,1);
$arr1 = array(1,2,3);
$arr2 = array(2,3,4);
$arr3 = array('a','b','c','d');
$arr4 = array('a','b','c');
$arr5 = array();
$comp1 = array(
'ints' => array(-1,0,1,2),
'floats' => array(-1.1,0.0,1.1,2.0),
'string' => array('str', 'str1', '', '1'),
'bools' => array(true, false),
'null' => array(null),
'objects' => array($tst1,$tst2,$tst3,$tst4),
'arrays' => array($arr1, $arr2, $arr3, $arr4, $arr5)
);
$fbody = array();
foreach($funcs as $name => $op){
$fbody[$name] = create_function('$a,$b', 'return $a ' . $op . ' $b;');
}
$table = array(array('function', 'comp1', 'comp2', 'f comp1 comp2', 'type'));
/* Do comparisons */
$comp2 = array();
foreach($comp1 as $type => $val){
$comp2[$type] = $val;
}
foreach($comp1 as $key1 => $val1){
foreach($comp2 as $key2 => $val2){
addTableEntry($key1, $key2, $val1, $val2);
}
}
$out = '';
foreach($table as $row){
$out .= sprintf("%-20s\t%-20s\t%-20s\t%-20s\t%-20s\n", $row[0], $row[1], $row[2], $row[3], $row[4]);
}
print $out;
exit;
function addTableEntry($n1, $n2, $comp1, $comp2){
global $table, $fbody;
foreach($fbody as $fname => $func){
foreach($comp1 as $val1){
foreach($comp2 as $val2){
$val = $func($val1,$val2);
$table[] = array($fname, gettype($val1) . ' => ' . sprintval($val1), gettype($val2) .' => ' . sprintval($val2), gettype($val) . ' => ' . sprintval($val), gettype($val1) . "-" . gettype($val2) . '-' . $fname);
}
}
}
}
function sprintval($val){
if(is_object($val)){
return 'object-' . $val->getab();
}
if(is_array($val)){
return implode(',', $val);
}
if(is_bool($val)){
if($val){
return 'true';
}
return 'false';
}
return strval($val);
}
?>
The truth tables really ought to be colorized; they're very hard to read as they are right now (just big arrays of TRUE and FALSE).
Also, something to consider: clustering the values which compare similarly (like is done on qntm.org/equality) would make the table easier to read as well. (This can be done simply by hand by rearranging the order of headings to bring related values closer together).
In some languages, a boolean is promoted to an integer (with a value of 1 or -1, typically) if used in an expression with an integer. I found that PHP has it both ways:
If you add a boolean with a value of true to an integer with a value of 3, the result will be 4 (because the boolean is cast as an integer).
On the other hand, if you test a boolean with a value of true for equality with an integer with a value of three, the result will be true (because the integer is cast as a boolean).
Surprisingly, at first glance, if you use either < or > as the comparison operator the result is always false (again, because the integer as cast as a boolean, and true is neither greater nor less than true).
There is also 0.0 which is not identical to 0.
$x = 0.0;
gettype($x); // double
empty($x); // true
is_null($x); //false
isset($x); // true
is_numeric($x); // true
$x ? true : false; // false
$x == 0; // true
$x == "0"; // true
$x == "0.0"; // true
$x == false; // true
$x == null; // true
$x === 0; // false
$x === false; // false
$x === null; // false
$x === "0"; // false
$x === "0.0"; // false