note 130527 added to function.settype
| From: | devsmt@gmail.com | Date: | Wed, 22 Oct 2025 09:24:56 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 130527 added to function.settype | ||
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the usefulness of this function is to use it in combination with gettype (for dynamic typecasting
from external sources)
<?php
$target_type = gettype($this->$var_name);
settype($var_val, $target_type);// force the expected type
$this->$var_name = $var_val;
?>
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