Question: I am not sure how clear my question is? But let me explain further. Before a person answers the test the result should be hyphen (-), When the person answers the test and gets a score it should display the score he has received. Now that was all working fine. But I noticed that when I score 0 It still displays as hyphen (-) when it should display 0. I will post my code below:

CODE:

```
<?php 
 if($skillsets)
 foreach($skillsets as $skill => $percentage){ ?>
 <div class="skill_block">
     <div class="small"><?php echo $skill ?></div>
     <?php if($percentage === 0) { ?>
     <div class="big">0%</div>
     <?php } else if($percentage == NULL) { ?>
     <div class="big">-</div>
     <?php } else { ?>
     <div class="big"><?php echo $percentage ?>%</div>
     <?php } ?>
 </div>
     <?php } ?>

```

Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks

> 
> 19/01/2016
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**UPDATE:**

The type of `$percentage` is float

Answer: 
I'm assuming you're fetching these scores from a database ... when you do that, NULLs will be nulls, but integers will be string representations of numbers.
Hence, your first check fails because you actually have *string* '0' instead of integer `0`; then, as already pointed out by others - `== NULL` will match all "empty" values, such as NULL, FALSE, string '0', integer '0', etc.

You should do this:

```
<?php 
if($skillsets)
{
     foreach($skillsets as $skill => $percentage)
     {
         // isset() checks if a variable exists and is not null
         if (isset($percentage))
         {
             $percentage = $percentage.'%';
         }
         else
         {
             $percentage = '-';
         } ?>
         <div class="skill_block">
             <div class="small"><?php echo $skill; ?></div>
             <div class="big"><?php echo $percentage; ?></div>
         </div>
 <?php
     }
 }
 ?>

```
```
<?php 
if(!empty($skillsets)){ # added { in condition
    foreach($skillsets as $skill => $percentage)
    { ?>
         <div class="skill_block">
             <div class="small"><?php echo $skill ?></div>
             <?php 
             if($percentage == 0 || empty($percentage))  # Changed
             { 
                ?>
                <div class="big">0%</div>
                <?php 
             } 
             else { ?>
                 <div class="big"><?php echo $percentage ?>%</div>
                 <?php 
             } ?>
         </div>
     <?php 
    } 
}
else
{
    echo "skillsets is empty";
}

```