Question

I am not getting what is wrong with this code. It’s returning “Found”, which it should not.

$lead = "418176000000069007";
$diff = array("418176000000069003","418176000000057001");

if (in_array($lead,$diff))
    echo "Found";
else
    echo "Not found";

Answer 1

Note: This was a bug in PHP old versions and is corrected in PHP 5.4 and newer versions.

It is because of the limitations of the number storage in PHP

The real problem here is because of the PHP_INT_MAX – the value exceeded in our case.

Try to echo/print_r $lead and $diff without using the quotes. It will result

$lead ---> 418176000000070000  
$diff ---> Array ( [0] => 418176000000070000 [1] => 418176000000060000 )

so, in this case, the in_array result is true!

so use strict comparison in in_array() by setting third argument in in_array() as true

     if(in_array($lead,$diff,true)) //use type too
       echo "Found";
     else
       echo "Not found";
?>

Try this. It will work.