note 52060 deleted from types.comparisons by philip
| From: | philip@php.net | Date: | Wed, 14 Dec 2005 02:37:38 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 52060 deleted from types.comparisons by philip | ||
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Note Submitter: Edgar dot Miller at gmail dot com
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Hi out there,
after not reading this part of the manual in past 5 years ;) , I found this great information about
testing types for variables.
I could not stop until i wrote a method to get all information from the 'Tabelle O-1'.
so I put a number infront of every line of 'Tabelle O-1' and the method gives back the
linenumber as result as it would be in 'Tabelle O-1'.
define('TYPE_EMPTYSTRING',1);
define('TYPE_UNDEFINED',2);
define('TYPE_ARRAY',5);
define('TYPE_BOOLEAN',6);
define('TYPE_INTEGER',8);
define('TYPE_INTEGER_ZERO',10);
define('TYPE_STRING_INTEGER',12);
define('TYPE_STRING_INTEGER_ZERO',13);
define('TYPE_STRING',15);
private function getTheType($var)
{
if ( gettype($var) == 'string' ) // 1 && 12 && 13 && 14
&& 15 && 16 && 17
{
if ( is_null($var) === false && isset($var) === true )
{
if ( empty($var) === true && ((bool)($var)) === false ) // 1 && 13
{
if ( $var == '' )
{
$type = 1;
}
else
{
$type = 13;
}
}
elseif ( is_numeric($var) === true) // 12 && 15
{
$type = 12; // && 14
}
else
{
$type = 15; // && 16 && 17
}
}
else
{
$type = 99 ;
}
}
elseif ( gettype($var) == 'integer' )
{
if ( empty($var) === false )
{
$type = 8; // && 9 && 11
}
else
{
$type = 10;
}
}
elseif ( gettype($var) == 'boolean' )
{
$type = 6; // && 7
}
elseif ( gettype($var) == 'NULL' )
{
$type = 2; // && 3 && 4
}
elseif ( gettype($var) == 'array' )
{
$type = 5;
}
else
{
$type = 99;
}
print "'".$var .' .. '. $type."'";
return $type;
}
now you can write small wrapper methods like this:
function isNumberZero($var)
{
if ( getTheType($var) == TYPE_INTEGER_ZERO )
{
return true;
}
else
{
return false;
}
}
regards
Erdal
thanks to blueshoes and php for stating this information.