note 73651 deleted from function.settype by danbrown

Note Submitter: sneskid at hotmail dot com ---- In response to the guy who was having troubles with leading zeros and wrote the convertToInt function. I benchmarked it and it is faster to just use base_convert than ltrim & friends. base_convert also has a lower "first time call" cost than ltrim (this could be related to server settings). It's about 2/3 that of ltrim. If you only use this type of conversion once per script then it's far more beneficial to use base_convert. The average values listed are ignoring the first time call costs. <?php $t = '0100'; // avg: 0.0000025 (0.0000036 wrapped as a function) $x = base_convert($t, 10, 10); // avg: 0.0000028 (0.0000039 wrapped as a function) $x = 0+ltrim($t,'0'); ?>