or if you only want to return 1 and 0 instead of just "true" and "false":

return $status ? 1 : 0;
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I know this is a bit of a dead horse but someone should have pointed out that your code above is not equivalent to the original. Consider $status = "a string" for instance. The original would return zero because that "a string" == 0 is true. Yours would return 1 because "a string" is also true.

-sauoq
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