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Question

I'm trying to compare the value entered by user ($b) with another value which is retrieved from my database tables ($a).

In theory, the below code should retrieve error 1 but it's not. Can you please help me understand what I'm doing wrong?

{$a=array('54607');
$b=array('54606');

if($a < $b){
   echo "error 1";
}elseif($a == $b){
   echo "error 2";
}else{
   echo "TRUE";
}

P.S. I'm a newbie in PHP so please be gentle and sorry in advance for any silly questions I may have.

Answer 1

$a=54607;
$b=54606;

if($a < $b){echo "error 1";
}elseif($a == $b){echo "error 2";
}else{echo "TRUE";}