diff --git a/system/core/Benchmark.php b/system/core/Benchmark.php
index bb630f4..2fabdf4 100755
--- a/system/core/Benchmark.php
+++ b/system/core/Benchmark.php
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
 	 */
 	public function elapsed_time($point1 = '', $point2 = '', $decimals = 4)
 	{
-		if ($point1 == '')
+		if ($point1 === '')
 		{
 			return '{elapsed_time}';
 		}
diff --git a/system/core/CodeIgniter.php b/system/core/CodeIgniter.php
index c8245fc..182f17a 100755
--- a/system/core/CodeIgniter.php
+++ b/system/core/CodeIgniter.php
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
  * Note: Since the config file data is cached it doesn't
  * hurt to load it here.
  */
-	if (isset($assign_to_config['subclass_prefix']) && $assign_to_config['subclass_prefix'] != '')
+	if (isset($assign_to_config['subclass_prefix']) && $assign_to_config['subclass_prefix'] !== '')
 	{
 		get_config(array('subclass_prefix' => $assign_to_config['subclass_prefix']));
 	}
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@
  * ------------------------------------------------------
  */
 	if ($EXT->call_hook('cache_override') === FALSE
-		&& $OUT->_display_cache($CFG, $URI) == TRUE)
+		&& $OUT->_display_cache($CFG, $URI) === TRUE)
 	{
 		exit;
 	}
diff --git a/system/core/Common.php b/system/core/Common.php
index 159cc0d..a773c4f 100644
--- a/system/core/Common.php
+++ b/system/core/Common.php
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@
 	{
 		static $_is_loaded = array();
 
-		if ($class != '')
+		if ($class !== '')
 		{
 			$_is_loaded[strtolower($class)] = $class;
 		}
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@
 	{
 		static $_log;
 
-		if (config_item('log_threshold') == 0)
+		if (config_item('log_threshold') === 0)
 		{
 			return;
 		}
@@ -436,17 +436,17 @@
 			505	=> 'HTTP Version Not Supported'
 		);
 
-		if ($code == '' OR ! is_numeric($code))
+		if ($code === '' OR ! is_numeric($code))
 		{
 			show_error('Status codes must be numeric', 500);
 		}
 
-		if (isset($stati[$code]) && $text == '')
+		if (isset($stati[$code]) && $text === '')
 		{
 			$text = $stati[$code];
 		}
 
-		if ($text == '')
+		if ($text === '')
 		{
 			show_error('No status text available. Please check your status code number or supply your own message text.', 500);
 		}
@@ -495,13 +495,13 @@
 
 		// Should we display the error? We'll get the current error_reporting
 		// level and add its bits with the severity bits to find out.
-		if (($severity & error_reporting()) == $severity)
+		if (($severity & error_reporting()) === $severity)
 		{
 			$_error->show_php_error($severity, $message, $filepath, $line);
 		}
 
 		// Should we log the error? No? We're done...
-		if (config_item('log_threshold') == 0)
+		if (config_item('log_threshold') === 0)
 		{
 			return;
 		}
diff --git a/system/core/Config.php b/system/core/Config.php
index c07ffa5..0e5fa52 100755
--- a/system/core/Config.php
+++ b/system/core/Config.php
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@
 	 */
 	public function load($file = '', $use_sections = FALSE, $fail_gracefully = FALSE)
 	{
-		$file = ($file == '') ? 'config' : str_replace('.php', '', $file);
+		$file = ($file === '') ? 'config' : str_replace('.php', '', $file);
 		$found = $loaded = FALSE;
 
 		foreach ($this->_config_paths as $path)
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@
 	 */
 	public function item($item, $index = '')
 	{
-		if ($index == '')
+		if ($index === '')
 		{
 			return isset($this->config[$item]) ? $this->config[$item] : FALSE;
 		}
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@
 		{
 			return FALSE;
 		}
-		elseif (trim($this->config[$item]) == '')
+		elseif (trim($this->config[$item]) === '')
 		{
 			return '';
 		}
@@ -230,14 +230,14 @@
 	 */
 	public function site_url($uri = '')
 	{
-		if ($uri == '')
+		if ($uri === '')
 		{
 			return $this->slash_item('base_url').$this->item('index_page');
 		}
 
-		if ($this->item('enable_query_strings') == FALSE)
+		if ($this->item('enable_query_strings') === FALSE)
 		{
-			$suffix = ($this->item('url_suffix') == FALSE) ? '' : $this->item('url_suffix');
+			$suffix = ($this->item('url_suffix') === FALSE) ? '' : $this->item('url_suffix');
 			return $this->slash_item('base_url').$this->slash_item('index_page').$this->_uri_string($uri).$suffix;
 		}
 		else
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@
 	 */
 	protected function _uri_string($uri)
 	{
-		if ($this->item('enable_query_strings') == FALSE)
+		if ($this->item('enable_query_strings') === FALSE)
 		{
 			if (is_array($uri))
 			{
diff --git a/system/core/Hooks.php b/system/core/Hooks.php
index 5bbb000..29fd882 100755
--- a/system/core/Hooks.php
+++ b/system/core/Hooks.php
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
 
 		// If hooks are not enabled in the config file
 		// there is nothing else to do
-		if ($CFG->item('enable_hooks') == FALSE)
+		if ($CFG->item('enable_hooks') === FALSE)
 		{
 			return;
 		}
diff --git a/system/core/Input.php b/system/core/Input.php
index 97be9e6..284b156 100755
--- a/system/core/Input.php
+++ b/system/core/Input.php
@@ -263,23 +263,23 @@
 			}
 		}
 
-		if ($prefix == '' && config_item('cookie_prefix') != '')
+		if ($prefix === '' && config_item('cookie_prefix') !== '')
 		{
 			$prefix = config_item('cookie_prefix');
 		}
-		if ($domain == '' && config_item('cookie_domain') != '')
+		if ($domain === '' && config_item('cookie_domain') !== '')
 		{
 			$domain = config_item('cookie_domain');
 		}
-		if ($path == '/' && config_item('cookie_path') !== '/')
+		if ($path === '/' && config_item('cookie_path') !== '/')
 		{
 			$path = config_item('cookie_path');
 		}
-		if ($secure == FALSE && config_item('cookie_secure') != FALSE)
+		if ($secure === FALSE && config_item('cookie_secure') !== FALSE)
 		{
 			$secure = config_item('cookie_secure');
 		}
-		if ($httponly == FALSE && config_item('cookie_httponly') != FALSE)
+		if ($httponly === FALSE && config_item('cookie_httponly') !== FALSE)
 		{
 			$httponly = config_item('cookie_httponly');
 		}
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@
 			return $this->ip_address;
 		}
 
-		if (config_item('proxy_ips') != '' && $this->server('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR') && $this->server('REMOTE_ADDR'))
+		if (config_item('proxy_ips') !== '' && $this->server('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR') && $this->server('REMOTE_ADDR'))
 		{
 			$proxies = preg_split('/[\s,]/', config_item('proxy_ips'), -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
 			$proxies = is_array($proxies) ? $proxies : array($proxies);
@@ -459,7 +459,7 @@
 		}
 
 		// Is $_GET data allowed? If not we'll set the $_GET to an empty array
-		if ($this->_allow_get_array == FALSE)
+		if ($this->_allow_get_array === FALSE)
 		{
 			$_GET = array();
 		}
@@ -502,7 +502,7 @@
 		$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] = strip_tags($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);
 
 		// CSRF Protection check
-		if ($this->_enable_csrf == TRUE)
+		if ($this->_enable_csrf === TRUE)
 		{
 			$this->security->csrf_verify();
 		}
@@ -559,7 +559,7 @@
 		}
 
 		// Standardize newlines if needed
-		if ($this->_standardize_newlines == TRUE && strpos($str, "\r") !== FALSE)
+		if ($this->_standardize_newlines === TRUE && strpos($str, "\r") !== FALSE)
 		{
 			return str_replace(array("\r\n", "\r", "\r\n\n"), PHP_EOL, $str);
 		}
diff --git a/system/core/Lang.php b/system/core/Lang.php
index 73c9127..3001f1b 100755
--- a/system/core/Lang.php
+++ b/system/core/Lang.php
@@ -76,26 +76,26 @@
 	{
 		$langfile = str_replace('.php', '', $langfile);
 
-		if ($add_suffix == TRUE)
+		if ($add_suffix === TRUE)
 		{
 			$langfile = str_replace('_lang', '', $langfile).'_lang';
 		}
 
 		$langfile .= '.php';
 
-		if ($idiom == '')
+		if ($idiom === '')
 		{
 			$config =& get_config();
 			$idiom = ( ! empty($config['language'])) ? $config['language'] : 'english';
 		}
 
-		if ($return == FALSE && isset($this->is_loaded[$langfile]) && $this->is_loaded[$langfile] === $idiom)
+		if ($return === FALSE && isset($this->is_loaded[$langfile]) && $this->is_loaded[$langfile] === $idiom)
 		{
 			return;
 		}
 
 		// Determine where the language file is and load it
-		if ($alt_path != '' && file_exists($alt_path.'language/'.$idiom.'/'.$langfile))
+		if ($alt_path !== '' && file_exists($alt_path.'language/'.$idiom.'/'.$langfile))
 		{
 			include($alt_path.'language/'.$idiom.'/'.$langfile);
 		}
@@ -124,14 +124,14 @@
 		{
 			log_message('error', 'Language file contains no data: language/'.$idiom.'/'.$langfile);
 
-			if ($return == TRUE)
+			if ($return === TRUE)
 			{
 				return array();
 			}
 			return;
 		}
 
-		if ($return == TRUE)
+		if ($return === TRUE)
 		{
 			return $lang;
 		}
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@
 	 */
 	public function line($line = '')
 	{
-		$value = ($line == '' OR ! isset($this->language[$line])) ? FALSE : $this->language[$line];
+		$value = ($line === '' OR ! isset($this->language[$line])) ? FALSE : $this->language[$line];
 
 		// Because killer robots like unicorns!
 		if ($value === FALSE)
diff --git a/system/core/Loader.php b/system/core/Loader.php
index 3eb09e6..adfe928 100644
--- a/system/core/Loader.php
+++ b/system/core/Loader.php
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@
 			return;
 		}
 
-		if ($library == '' OR isset($this->_base_classes[$library]))
+		if ($library === '' OR isset($this->_base_classes[$library]))
 		{
 			return FALSE;
 		}
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@
 			return;
 		}
 
-		if ($model == '')
+		if ($model === '')
 		{
 			return;
 		}
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@
 			$model = substr($model, $last_slash);
 		}
 
-		if ($name == '')
+		if ($name === '')
 		{
 			$name = $model;
 		}
@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@
 		$CI =& get_instance();
 
 		// Do we even need to load the database class?
-		if (class_exists('CI_DB') && $return == FALSE && $query_builder == NULL && isset($CI->db) && is_object($CI->db))
+		if (class_exists('CI_DB') && $return === FALSE && $query_builder === NULL && isset($CI->db) && is_object($CI->db))
 		{
 			return FALSE;
 		}
@@ -452,7 +452,7 @@
 	 */
 	public function vars($vars = array(), $val = '')
 	{
-		if ($val != '' && is_string($vars))
+		if ($val !== '' && is_string($vars))
 		{
 			$vars = array($vars => $val);
 		}
@@ -642,7 +642,7 @@
 			require BASEPATH.'libraries/Driver.php';
 		}
 
-		if ($library == '')
+		if ($library === '')
 		{
 			return FALSE;
 		}
@@ -714,7 +714,7 @@
 	{
 		$config =& $this->_ci_get_component('config');
 
-		if ($path == '')
+		if ($path === '')
 		{
 			array_shift($this->_ci_library_paths);
 			array_shift($this->_ci_model_paths);
@@ -775,7 +775,7 @@
 		$file_exists = FALSE;
 
 		// Set the path to the requested file
-		if ($_ci_path != '')
+		if ($_ci_path !== '')
 		{
 			$_ci_x = explode('/', $_ci_path);
 			$_ci_file = end($_ci_x);
@@ -783,7 +783,7 @@
 		else
 		{
 			$_ci_ext = pathinfo($_ci_view, PATHINFO_EXTENSION);
-			$_ci_file = ($_ci_ext == '') ? $_ci_view.'.php' : $_ci_view;
+			$_ci_file = ($_ci_ext === '') ? $_ci_view.'.php' : $_ci_view;
 
 			foreach ($this->_ci_view_paths as $view_file => $cascade)
 			{
@@ -847,7 +847,7 @@
 		// If the PHP installation does not support short tags we'll
 		// do a little string replacement, changing the short tags
 		// to standard PHP echo statements.
-		if ( ! is_php('5.4') && (bool) @ini_get('short_open_tag') === FALSE && config_item('rewrite_short_tags') == TRUE)
+		if ( ! is_php('5.4') && (bool) @ini_get('short_open_tag') === FALSE && config_item('rewrite_short_tags') === TRUE)
 		{
 			echo eval('?>'.preg_replace('/;*\s*\?>/', '; ?>', str_replace('<?=', '<?php echo ', file_get_contents($_ci_path))));
 		}
@@ -1000,7 +1000,7 @@
 		} // END FOREACH
 
 		// One last attempt. Maybe the library is in a subdirectory, but it wasn't specified?
-		if ($subdir == '')
+		if ($subdir === '')
 		{
 			$path = strtolower($class).'/'.$class;
 			return $this->_ci_load_class($path, $params);
@@ -1008,7 +1008,7 @@
 
 		// If we got this far we were unable to find the requested class.
 		// We do not issue errors if the load call failed due to a duplicate request
-		if ($is_duplicate == FALSE)
+		if ($is_duplicate === FALSE)
 		{
 			log_message('error', 'Unable to load the requested class: '.$class);
 			show_error('Unable to load the requested class: '.$class);
@@ -1067,7 +1067,7 @@
 			}
 		}
 
-		if ($prefix == '')
+		if ($prefix === '')
 		{
 			if (class_exists('CI_'.$class))
 			{
diff --git a/system/core/Output.php b/system/core/Output.php
index c8feb4e..496948a 100755
--- a/system/core/Output.php
+++ b/system/core/Output.php
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@
 	 */
 	public function append_output($output)
 	{
-		if ($this->final_output == '')
+		if ($this->final_output === '')
 		{
 			$this->final_output = $output;
 		}
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@
 		// but it will not modify the content-length header to compensate for
 		// the reduction, causing the browser to hang waiting for more data.
 		// We'll just skip content-length in those cases.
-		if ($this->_zlib_oc && strncasecmp($header, 'content-length', 14) == 0)
+		if ($this->_zlib_oc && strncasecmp($header, 'content-length', 14) === 0)
 		{
 			return;
 		}
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@
 		// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 		// Set the output data
-		if ($output == '')
+		if ($output === '')
 		{
 			$output =& $this->final_output;
 		}
@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@
 		// --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 		// Is compression requested?
-		if ($CFG->item('compress_output') === TRUE && $this->_zlib_oc == FALSE
+		if ($CFG->item('compress_output') === TRUE && $this->_zlib_oc === FALSE
 			&& extension_loaded('zlib')
 			&& isset($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING']) && strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING'], 'gzip') !== FALSE)
 		{
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@
 
 		// Do we need to generate profile data?
 		// If so, load the Profile class and run it.
-		if ($this->enable_profiler == TRUE)
+		if ($this->enable_profiler === TRUE)
 		{
 			$CI->load->library('profiler');
 			if ( ! empty($this->_profiler_sections))
@@ -460,7 +460,7 @@
 	{
 		$CI =& get_instance();
 		$path = $CI->config->item('cache_path');
-		$cache_path = ($path == '') ? APPPATH.'cache/' : $path;
+		$cache_path = ($path === '') ? APPPATH.'cache/' : $path;
 
 		if ( ! is_dir($cache_path) OR ! is_really_writable($cache_path))
 		{
@@ -509,7 +509,7 @@
 	 */
 	public function _display_cache(&$CFG, &$URI)
 	{
-		$cache_path = ($CFG->item('cache_path') == '') ? APPPATH.'cache/' : $CFG->item('cache_path');
+		$cache_path = ($CFG->item('cache_path') === '') ? APPPATH.'cache/' : $CFG->item('cache_path');
 
 		// Build the file path. The file name is an MD5 hash of the full URI
 		$uri =	$CFG->item('base_url').$CFG->item('index_page').$URI->uri_string;
diff --git a/system/core/Router.php b/system/core/Router.php
index 5ea1379..93875bd 100755
--- a/system/core/Router.php
+++ b/system/core/Router.php
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@
 		$this->uri->_fetch_uri_string();
 
 		// Is there a URI string? If not, the default controller specified in the "routes" file will be shown.
-		if ($this->uri->uri_string == '')
+		if ($this->uri->uri_string === '')
 		{
 			return $this->_set_default_controller();
 		}
@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@
 	 */
 	public function fetch_method()
 	{
-		return ($this->method == $this->fetch_class()) ? 'index' : $this->method;
+		return ($this->method === $this->fetch_class()) ? 'index' : $this->method;
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -483,14 +483,14 @@
 			$this->set_directory($routing['directory']);
 		}
 
-		if (isset($routing['controller']) && $routing['controller'] != '')
+		if (isset($routing['controller']) && $routing['controller'] !== '')
 		{
 			$this->set_class($routing['controller']);
 		}
 
 		if (isset($routing['function']))
 		{
-			$routing['function'] = ($routing['function'] == '') ? 'index' : $routing['function'];
+			$routing['function'] = ($routing['function'] === '') ? 'index' : $routing['function'];
 			$this->set_method($routing['function']);
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/system/core/Security.php b/system/core/Security.php
index 9b7ba57..9cbcd92 100755
--- a/system/core/Security.php
+++ b/system/core/Security.php
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@
 
 		// Do the tokens exist in both the _POST and _COOKIE arrays?
 		if ( ! isset($_POST[$this->_csrf_token_name]) OR ! isset($_COOKIE[$this->_csrf_cookie_name])
-			OR $_POST[$this->_csrf_token_name] != $_COOKIE[$this->_csrf_cookie_name]) // Do the tokens match?
+			OR $_POST[$this->_csrf_token_name] !== $_COOKIE[$this->_csrf_cookie_name]) // Do the tokens match?
 		{
 			$this->csrf_show_error();
 		}
@@ -408,7 +408,7 @@
 				$str = preg_replace('#<(/*)(script|xss)(.*?)\>#si', '[removed]', $str);
 			}
 		}
-		while($original != $str);
+		while($original !== $str);
 
 		unset($original);
 
@@ -475,7 +475,7 @@
 	 */
 	public function xss_hash()
 	{
-		if ($this->_xss_hash == '')
+		if ($this->_xss_hash === '')
 		{
 			mt_srand();
 			$this->_xss_hash = md5(time() + mt_rand(0, 1999999999));
@@ -825,7 +825,7 @@
 	 */
 	protected function _csrf_set_hash()
 	{
-		if ($this->_csrf_hash == '')
+		if ($this->_csrf_hash === '')
 		{
 			// If the cookie exists we will use it's value.
 			// We don't necessarily want to regenerate it with
diff --git a/system/core/URI.php b/system/core/URI.php
index a9432e0..9c50251 100755
--- a/system/core/URI.php
+++ b/system/core/URI.php
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@
 			// Is there a PATH_INFO variable?
 			// Note: some servers seem to have trouble with getenv() so we'll test it two ways
 			$path = (isset($_SERVER['PATH_INFO'])) ? $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] : @getenv('PATH_INFO');
-			if (trim($path, '/') != '' && $path !== '/'.SELF)
+			if (trim($path, '/') !== '' && $path !== '/'.SELF)
 			{
 				$this->_set_uri_string($path);
 				return;
@@ -120,14 +120,14 @@
 
 			// No PATH_INFO?... What about QUERY_STRING?
 			$path = (isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) ? $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] : @getenv('QUERY_STRING');
-			if (trim($path, '/') != '')
+			if (trim($path, '/') !== '')
 			{
 				$this->_set_uri_string($path);
 				return;
 			}
 
 			// As a last ditch effort lets try using the $_GET array
-			if (is_array($_GET) && count($_GET) === 1 && trim(key($_GET), '/') != '')
+			if (is_array($_GET) && count($_GET) === 1 && trim(key($_GET), '/') !== '')
 			{
 				$this->_set_uri_string(key($_GET));
 				return;
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@
 			$_GET = array();
 		}
 
-		if ($uri == '/' OR empty($uri))
+		if ($uri === '/' OR empty($uri))
 		{
 			return '/';
 		}
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@
 	 */
 	public function _filter_uri($str)
 	{
-		if ($str != '' && $this->config->item('permitted_uri_chars') != '' && $this->config->item('enable_query_strings') == FALSE)
+		if ($str !== '' && $this->config->item('permitted_uri_chars') !== '' && $this->config->item('enable_query_strings') === FALSE)
 		{
 			// preg_quote() in PHP 5.3 escapes -, so the str_replace() and addition of - to preg_quote() is to maintain backwards
 			// compatibility as many are unaware of how characters in the permitted_uri_chars will be parsed as a regex pattern
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@
 	 */
 	public function _remove_url_suffix()
 	{
-		if  ($this->config->item('url_suffix') != '')
+		if  ($this->config->item('url_suffix') !== '')
 		{
 			$this->uri_string = preg_replace('|'.preg_quote($this->config->item('url_suffix')).'$|', '', $this->uri_string);
 		}
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@
 			// Filter segments for security
 			$val = trim($this->_filter_uri($val));
 
-			if ($val != '')
+			if ($val !== '')
 			{
 				$this->segments[] = $val;
 			}
diff --git a/system/core/Utf8.php b/system/core/Utf8.php
index a6faa84..2b5a1f5 100644
--- a/system/core/Utf8.php
+++ b/system/core/Utf8.php
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
 		if (
 			@preg_match('/./u', 'é') === 1		// PCRE must support UTF-8
 			&& function_exists('iconv')			// iconv must be installed
-			&& @ini_get('mbstring.func_overload') != 1	// Multibyte string function overloading cannot be enabled
+			&& @ini_get('mbstring.func_overload') !== 1	// Multibyte string function overloading cannot be enabled
 			&& $CFG->item('charset') === 'UTF-8'		// Application charset must be UTF-8
 			)
 		{