Re: evaluating whether a string value is an integer

(int)$value; On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Aaron Peterson wrote: > I am just learning php to put to use on building ecommerce sites. I bought > a book yesterday to help me on my quest, but it comes up a little short on > error handling. From what I understand, any data passed to a php script > from an HTML form is of type string. I have managed to make sure people can > only order a real number of items (can't enter text when I expect a value) > by using the is_numeric() function. However, this does not ensure that > people can't order 1.7777777777 hard disks or something silly like that. > how do I evaluate a string variable (since I seem not to have other options) > to make sure it is of type integer rather than type double? > > Aaron > > > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >