How to check if a param is true or false?

Question

This is really racking my brain, but maybe I\'m trying to hard.

I\'m passing a param via a URL (example.com?debug=true)

So I basically want to say:

Answer 1

But for whatever reason that if statement just isn't doing like it seems like it should.

I can almost guarantee that it is doing exactly what it should. When things don't make sense, one of our assumptions is wrong.

Is the value actually a boolean or is it string (or something else?). If the value is a string then of course the comparison to the boolean value true will fail. Try comparing to 'true' and see if that works.