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

I would right a function that would return a result and try an match within the different types. if (isdate($a)) { Dtype = date; } if (isdigit($a)) { Dtype = int; } return (Dtype); etc.. At 01:44 PM 3/18/01 -0500, phpman wrote:

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 -- 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

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