note 99161 rejected from function.intval by danbrown

Note Submitter: ricardo dot massaro at gmail dot com ---- This documentation is misleading. The actual default value for the $base parameter is 0, not 10. When you pass $base=0 (or don't specify it), the function will "guess" the base from the contents of the given string, emulating C: if the string starts with "0x", the used base will be 16, if the string starts with "0", the used base will be 8, otherwise the used base will be 10. So, pass $base=10 explicitly if you want to force any leading zeroes to be ignored (and prevent them from triggering base 8). Examples: <?php intval("010"); // 8 intval("010", 0); // 8 intval("010", 10); // 10 ?>