note 109750 added to function.intval

I just wanted to be sure that a string was going to be valid if I intval'ed it. This regular expression matches: 0 Any positive integer (no + sign) Any negative integer (with a - sign) It does not match a leading 0 or any other character. You are advised to strip out commas, trim the string and check range yourself ;) <?php /** * Loops through each non-array element and actions a function. * * @return boolean|integer TRUE if the value matches as an integer, FALSE if * an error occured or 0 if not match was found. */ public function validate($value) { $value = preg_match('/^(0|(-{0,1}[1-9]\d*))$/', trim($value)); if ($value == 1) return true; else return $value; } ?> If you use intval() now, you are merely changing the data type. ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 82.152.26.217 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.intval.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/109750 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109750/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109750/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109750/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109750/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109750/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109750/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109750 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/109750 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php