I have variable like this with the type of string: Now I tried setting it’s type to integer, so I tried these: So how to properly return the value 65000 as integer? Answer You wrong code, the first it’s correct and the second is intval($variable) I hope it’s just a typing error but in the variable you didn’t close with
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Casting a value into FLOAT in PHP loses the decimal points. Basically turning the value into an INT
I’m calling a PHP form, the float value is received correctly, but if I cast it into a FLOAT, either immediately of afterwards, the value loses all decimal point numbers, and I don’t want that. I tried using floatval but same result. Answer Install proper locale settings on your machine. Probably you have installed IT (Italy) locale file and there
String to Int shall throw instead of returning 0
If I cast a string with intval(‘string’) or with (int) ‘string’ and if that string contains letters other than numbers I get int 0 as result. Is there a way in which an catchable Exception is thrown, due to which I can check that the conversion was successful, so that the user can’t accidentally enter 1O instead of 10? Also
Cast a column as Boolean in PDO
I have a field (‘done’) in the Database which is boolean. The function which GET/ the rows doesn’t return a json with that field as boolean but it returns 1 or 0. How can I get THAT column (‘done’ column) as boolean? I mean, Is posible to cast a column with PDO::PARAM_BOOL ?? Here is my sample of UPDATE that
PHP unexpected result of float to int type cast
I’trying to convert a float to an int value in php: I can use ceil to make it work but can somebody explain this to me? Answer This is because numbers that have a finite representation in base 10 may or may not have an exact representation in the floating point representation PHP uses. See >php -r “echo var_dump(sprintf(‘%.40F’, 39.3