iis / apache discrepancy?

igenesis

Hi all - I have a script that runs fine on any flavor of linux/apache, but when it is run on windows/IIS, it does not work. There appears to be a discrepancy in how the two handle true/false conditions by default. Example:

$varTest = 1130;

If (!$varTest) {
echo "FAIL";
} else {
echo "PASS";
}

On linux/apache, this script will echo "PASS". On windows/IIS, it will echo "FAIL". Why is that? What setting, if any, can I change to make it echo "PASS" in IIS?

Thanks a million in advance!

swr

That's very odd (though I don't have IIS to test it myself).

Are you having problems with the actual script posted, or is that script a translation of some other code that doesn't work? If the former, that is very odd. If the latter, try running the script you posted and I think you'll find it works fine.

True/false handling is pretty basic to the functioning of PHP. I can't imagine how it could work differently on different platforms without breaking nearly every script in existence...?

igenesis

Believe it or not, what I posted is the actual script. The only difference is that $varTest receives its value from an strpos call in the real script:

$varTest = strpos($bigString, "some_text");

That call returns a value of 1130, which is what I posted in my original logic. 1130 is returned, correctly, on both windows/iis and linux/apache, so the problem is definitely in the next step - the if evaluation.

Is it possible that the IIS or PHP configuration is corrupted or something? I mean, I just don't get. Anybody got any ideas? I had hoped it was just some setting that could be switched from on to off or vice versa...