Question

I was doing some self-learning about cakephp (version 1.26).
I got a simple HTML input text field like this:

<input type="text" name="data[testing][name]" id="data[testing][name]">

The value from the Input text box field was checked against the database.
If the value matches the data stored in the database, it will return true.
Here is the code:

{
  $t=$this->data;
  $result=$this->User->findByname($t['testing']['name']); 
  if($result){ //doing something;}
}

I came across a question when I altered the code above with a little change,
but then it failed to work then:

 {
      $t=$this->data;
      $result=$this->User->findByname($t['testing']['name']); 
      if($result===true){ //doing something;}
    }

Could anyone help please?

Answer 1

Assuming here that findByName returns some kind of object or array. if you use if ($result) this object/array will be cast to a boolean.

If however you use if ($result === true) you’re strictly comparing an object/array to the boolean true, this comparison will always evaluate to false.