note 36793 added to function.settype

From: Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:51:06 +0000
Subject: note 36793 added to function.settype
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I don't think this function is valuable either. I even don't know when it will fail. I tried these codes: <?php $test = "string"; if(settype($test,'integer')) echo "successful\n $test\n"; else echo "failed\n"; ?> //output: successful 0 Why doesn't it fail? ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.settype.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+36793 Delete -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+36793&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+36793&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php

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