Strange PHP string compare effect, could this be made nicer? -

Strange PHP string compare effect, could this be made nicer? -

i've updated website , found annoying problem in pages resolved it, i'm not realy convinced should this. me i'm not php expert unusual behaviour explain me whats going on.

i had code:

if($menu == "index"){ {if ($language == "uk"){echo "<td><h1>welcome</h1>";} {if ($language == "nl"){echo "<td><h1>welkom </h1>";} } else // if $menu not index displayed hyperlink welcome page

the string thing here while checking language worked fine. comparing $menu did not work, if contained word index whole page generated on fly , string operations done before assumed maybe, despite tested with

echo "dump menu variable " . $menu

which resulted in jut displaying word index on page. maybe there go wrong in string types or that

so experimented with

if($menu === "index")

no luck

well solved

if (strpos($menu,'index' !==false)

is way should done???, don't sense comfortable it. me unusual $language works should (in opinion). there type problem here, or maybe unwanted endings \n perhaps ehm normalize string content of readable string comparions or, different type of equal operator. feels me $menu handled more easily. maybe reformat or i'm not sure here.

looks indeed index-string containing whitespaces, instead of strpos utilize trim( $menu ) rid of them.

but best prevent occurence. seek echo "dump menu variable |" . $menu ."|"; or var_dump( $menu ) identify additional characters.

maybe post, code-segment $menu filled.

(sorry can't comment)

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