<?php
// Example array
$array = array(
'egg' => true,
'cheese' => false,
'hair' => 765,
'goblins' => null,
'ogres' => 'no ogres allowed in this array'
);
// Loose checking -- return values are in comments
print "Loose checking\n";
// First three make sense, last four do not
var_dump(in_array(null, $array)); // true
var_dump(in_array(false, $array)); // true
var_dump(in_array(765, $array)); // true
var_dump(in_array(763, $array)); // true
var_dump(in_array('egg', $array)); // true
var_dump(in_array('hhh', $array)); // true
var_dump(in_array(array(), $array)); // true
// Strict checking
print "\n\nStrict checking\n";
var_dump(in_array(null, $array, true)); // true
var_dump(in_array(false, $array, true)); // true
var_dump(in_array(765, $array, true)); // true
var_dump(in_array(763, $array, true)); // false
var_dump(in_array('egg', $array, true)); // false
var_dump(in_array('hhh', $array, true)); // false
var_dump(in_array(array(), $array, true)); // false
- Output for 7.0.0 - 7.0.20, 7.1.0 - 7.1.20, 7.2.0 - 7.2.33, 7.3.16 - 7.3.33, 7.4.0 - 7.4.33, 8.0.0 - 8.0.30, 8.1.0 - 8.1.31, 8.2.0 - 8.2.27, 8.3.0 - 8.3.15, 8.4.1 - 8.4.2
- Loose checking
bool(true)
bool(true)
bool(true)
bool(true)
bool(true)
bool(true)
bool(true)
Strict checking
bool(true)
bool(true)
bool(true)
bool(false)
bool(false)
bool(false)
bool(false)
preferences:
68.58 ms | 408 KiB | 5 Q