Posted by Jochem Maas on 09/14/05 15:57

Ross wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to increment a cookie by 1 every time a click a button
>
> if (isset($add) {
>
> $number++;
> setcookie("cookie[number]", "$number Is the number")
>
> }
>
> I know I should retireve the cookie value for $number but the problem is it
> has 2 bits, a number and a bit of text.

in your case this can be done simply:

$number = 99;
$string = "$number Is the number";
echo "the number is ",intval($string),"\n";

this works because the number is at the start of the string...
(and because of the cool way the made type conversion work in php)
to find out more search/read the manual on the subject of
typecasting/conversion.

>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ross
>

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