Examples:
Example of object comparison in PHP 5
When using the comparison operator (==), object variables are compared in a simple manner, namely: Two object instances are equal if they have the same attributes and values, and are instances of the same class.
When using the identity operator (===), object variables are identical if and only if they refer to the same instance of the same class.
An example will clarify these rules.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 | <?phpfunction bool2str($bool){ if ($bool === false) { return 'FALSE'; } else { return 'TRUE'; }}function compareObjects(&$o1, &$o2){ echo 'o1 == o2 : ' . bool2str($o1 == $o2) . "\n"; echo 'o1 != o2 : ' . bool2str($o1 != $o2) . "\n"; echo 'o1 === o2 : ' . bool2str($o1 === $o2) . "\n"; echo 'o1 !== o2 : ' . bool2str($o1 !== $o2) . "\n";}class Flag{ public $flag; function Flag($flag = true) { $this->flag = $flag; }}class OtherFlag{ public $flag; function OtherFlag($flag = true) { $this->flag = $flag; }}$o = new Flag();$p = new Flag();$q = $o;$r = new OtherFlag();echo "Two instances of the same class\n";compareObjects($o, $p);echo "\nTwo references to the same instance\n";compareObjects($o, $q);echo "\nInstances of two different classes\n";compareObjects($o, $r);?> |
The above example will output:
Two instances of the same class o1 == o2 : TRUE o1 != o2 : FALSE o1 === o2 : FALSE o1 !== o2 : TRUE Two references to the same instance o1 == o2 : TRUE o1 != o2 : FALSE o1 === o2 : TRUE o1 !== o2 : FALSE Instances of two different classes o1 == o2 : FALSE o1 != o2 : TRUE o1 === o2 : FALSE o1 !== o2 : TRUE
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