Posted by "bruce" on 09/22/05 02:54

but now that you're talking about ints/strings/floats, aren't you now
getting into data typing issues... which gets into the correct/appropriate
archistecture of your app, variable namespace issues, etc...

-bruce



-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Cummings [mailto:robert@interjinn.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 4:44 PM
To: Chris Shiflett
Cc: Mikey; 'PHP Mailing Lists'
Subject: Re: [PHP] security/sql issues with php


On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 19:21, Chris Shiflett wrote:
> Mikey wrote:
> > I have found that adding 0 and then running is_int() usually works.
>
> You mean always works. :-) Casting something to an integer and then
> checking to see if it's an integer doesn't tell you anything useful:
>
> <?php
>
> $int = 'this is not an int';
> $int += 0;
>
> if (is_int($int))
> {
> echo '$int is an integer';
> }
>
> ?>
>
> You're always going to see "$int is an integer" on the screen, even when
> $int is clearly not. As I mentioned, ctype_digit() fits the bill nicely:

Not if it's a float.

<?php

$int = '2.333';
$int += 0;

if (is_int($int))
{
echo '$int is an integer';
}
else
{
echo '$int is probably a float :)';
}

?>

Cheers,
Rob.
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