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PHP Build a Basic PHP Website (2018) Listing and Sorting Inventory Items Displaying Item Details

Aaron Uusitalo
Aaron Uusitalo
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Posted by Aaron Uusitalo
Aaron Uusitalo
4,405 Points

why not just use "Books" in our conditional as opposed to "books" rather than having to call strtolower function?

Is this a best practice, or is it included just to give us exposure to the build-in function?

Since a string is going to be hard coded in the conditional, why not go the simpler route?

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i think it's because in real life, arrays/data can be constructed in a weird way. it would be easier to match a data like for example: "bookCategoryForKids" to all converted characters to lower/capital one.