Case sensitive problem

[realjumper]

Hi,

According to the manual this should work.......

[code]

<?php

$a = 'a';
$b = 'A';

if (strcasecmp($a, $b) == 0) {
 echo '$a is equal to $b in a case-insensitive string comparison';
}

[/code]

If I comment out the 'echo.....' the page displays. With the echo in place nothing displays, and I don't know why.

All I am tring to do is to (utimately) have $a equal $b when $a might be in caps and $b might be in lower case. I wish to return True that $a equals $b regardless of case. I'm sure I have used this before but I can't find the code in my library. Can anyone help?

[realjumper]

Never mind...I've figured it out

[AndyB]

... and for the benegit of the rest of us, the solution was ...

[realjumper]

The solution was.....(I was getting to the post ;))

That this piece of code returns '0' if the comparison is true.....
[code]
<?php

$a = 'a';
$b = 'A';
echo strcasecmp("$a","$b");

?>
[/code]

The above returns '0'. So.....

[code]
<?php

$a = 'a';
$b = 'b';

$compare = strcasecmp("$a","$b");

if ($compare == '0')
{
Header("Location: yipee_you_are_logged_in.php");
exit();
}
?>
[/code]

$compare DOES equal 0, so the redirect occurs

[realjumper]

Whoops, I made a typo in printing above,
the final solution shoiuld be

[code]
?php

$a = 'a';
$b = 'A';  // my typo was here

$compare = strcasecmp("$a","$b");

if ($compare == '0')
{
Header("Location: yipee_you_are_logged_in.php");
exit();
}
?>
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