how do i get a variable type? - not that simple

No guys. that doesn't work. Take this code for example... $a="3"; echo(gettype($a)); this returns string i need to find it as an integer or real or float for the sql. which by the way is MySQL. thank you for responding, but I already know that gettype and all the other is_* don't work for this. ""phpman"" <info@graphicon.nu> wrote in message news:99132e$ol8$1@toye.p.sourceforge.net... > hello all, > > let's say i have this: > $a="varone=hello world|vartwo=2.44|varthree=100|"; > > now i do this: > > $b=explode('|',$a); > $z=count($b); > for ($x=0;$x<$z;$x++) { > $tmp=explode('=',$b[$x]); > .... > > and i want to find out if $tmp[1] is a string or an integer (that's really > all I need to determine so i can put > together an SQL statement that puts single quotes around strings and none > around integers). Obviously > i won't know at design time all of the variables and their values. Thank > you. > > -dave > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >