Why do we use == rather than ===

[Orgy]

Nor would the equals (==) operator. "Hey" and "hey" are not equal; 4 and "4" are equal but not identical. The equals operator does not eliminate case sensitivity. In order to do that you'd need to use a function such as strcasecmp () or strtolower ()/strtoupper (). The difference being that strcmp ()/strcasecmp () are binary safe and the equals/identical operators are not.

And Orgy, no, (1 === "1") would return false. They are equal (1 == "1") but they are not identical due to the difference in data type. The LHV is an integer and the RHV is a string literal.

Yeah I tested all of that shortly after asking, and found that all out. Nice to know