What does !== comparison operator in PHP mean?

Question

I saw

if($output !== false){
}

It's an exclamation mark with two equals signs.

It almost works like not equal. Does it has any extra significance?

Answer 1

They are the strict equality operators ( ===, !==) , the two operands must have the same type and value in order the result to be true.

For example:

var_dump(0 == "0"); //  true
var_dump("1" == "01"); //  true
var_dump("1" == true); //  true

var_dump(0 === "0"); //  false
var_dump("1" === "01"); //  false
var_dump("1" === true); //  false

More information:

• PHP Comparison Operators