Posted by comp.lang.php on 02/03/06 19:03

I'm involved in a rather nasty debate involving a strange issue
(whereby the exasperated tell me to RTFM even after my having done so),
where this is insanely possible:

[PHP]
print_r(is_int('1')); // PRINTS NOTHING
print_r(strlen((int)1)); // PRINTS '1'
[/PHP]

Now I understand that in PHP, everything scalar is a string and can
take on the role of an integer, or a boolean or.. whatever it's
configured to look like. Why is it that I'm so "way off" in this
thread, when it seems to me that I have it right based on my basic
understanding the definition of "types"?

Phil

http://phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?t=10316949

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