Re: [PHP] variable type - conversion/checking

[email protected] (Jim Lucas)
Newsgroups php.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 03/14/2013 11:50 AM, Samuel Lopes Grigolato wrote:
> Something like "if (is_numeric($var)&&  $var == floor($var))" will do the
> trick. I don't know if there's a better (more elegant) way.
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Matijn Woudt<[email protected]>  wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 7:02 PM, georg<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have tried to find a way to check if a character string is possible to
>>> test whether it is convertible to an intger !
>>>
>>> any suggestion ?
>>>
>>> BR georg
>>
>>
>> You could use is_numeric for that, though it also accepts floats.
>>
>> - Matijn
>>
>

for that type of test I have always used this:

if ( $val == (int)$val ) {

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.integer.php#language.types.integer.casting


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