note 47068 deleted from language.types.boolean by nlopess

Note Submitter: Jared ---- Discord's method is ok. But a bit bulky. I wanted to use (bool) to ensure a field going into MySQL wasn't any greater than 1, and not less than 0. That obviously isn't going to work too great with (bool). So I found this nice method that can be used for other things as well. $var = "false" $var = ($var) ? 1 : 0; Now strings can be bool'ed. 1, "1", "true", true, 2, -1, etc will end up being 1. Anything that equalled 0 (0, "0", false, "false"), will return a 0. Works for me! Now you'll get a 0 or 1, nothing else.