Re: date('w') return type
| From: | Curt Zirzow | Date: | Tue, 08 Jun 2004 17:54:05 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: date('w') return type | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.internals |
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* Thus wrote dharana (dharana@dharana.net):
> I know I can just cast to int, but is it ok to return an string for
> things that can only be numbers?
>
>
> <?php
> // imagine today is sunday
> var_export(date('w') === 0);
> ?>
>
> prints false, but I expected it to return an int. Am I wrong? I imagine
> it's the same thing with the rest of date's return values.
<manual>
string date ( string format [, int timestamp])
</manual>
Looks like it returns a string.
Curt
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