## PHP Question ##

[Mr Chad]

Ok here is what i need, i have a column named "votecount" and i want to make an if statement like this:
if ($votecount = 0) {
}
but it really = NULL is there anyway for me to convert NULL into 0 or somthing...

[citricguy]

I might not understand what your asking but would this work?

if ($votecount === NULL) {
$votecount = 0;
}

[Mr Chad]

I might not understand what your asking but would this work?

if ($votecount === NULL) {
$votecount = 0;
}

my bad, im stupid... it was a different error i was having.

but thanks anyway,

[davidw]

I might not understand what your asking but would this work?

if ($votecount === NULL) {
$votecount = 0;
}Shouldn't it be == rather than ===?

[Delphiprogrammi]

hi,

carefull here === means something else then ==

=== identical to .....
== equal to

ciao

[akanevsky]

Just use,

if (!$votecount) {
}

[Mr Chad]

Just use,

if (!$votecount) {
}

whats that meen?

the !$votecount ?

[Chris M]

! means not - In this case you could translate !$variable as "$variable is empty or null" :)

=== means exactly equal to and is only used in PHP :)

Chris

[Paul M]

If you really want to convert it to zero, use $votecount = intval($votecount);