I am having a problem comparing 2 identical strings. The first string is retrieved from a database and the other hard coded.
The string is { "name":"John", "age":30, "car":null }.
I've first run this code and the database string has a length of 79 character and the hard coded string has a length of 39 characters.
echo '<pre>';var_dump($json_data);echo '</pre>';
echo '<pre>';var_dump('{ "name":"John", "age":30, "car":null }');echo '</pre>';
After some searching it was suggested to use bin2hex() and using that i've narrowed it down to the " character.
Replacing the database value with a " and running the following code outputs
2671756f743b for the database value and 22 for the hard coded value.
echo bin2hex($json_data)."<br>";
echo bin2hex('"')."<br>";
What is the correct way to get both values to compare using strcmp() as based on the comparison i will be doing other code.
Thanks to @Mark Baker, I had to html_entity_decode() the database value and now both values match.