note 55390 deleted from function.is-int by nlopess

From: Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 11:00:25 +0000
Subject: note 55390 deleted from function.is-int by nlopess
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Note Submitter: fanfatal at fanfatal dot pl Reason: useless ---- I wrote some usefull function again :D If you want to check if your data from _POST or _GET is int you can't use normal function is_int() beacuse external datas are always as strings ;] For this you can use that: <?php /* * Find whether a variable is only with digits * * @author FanFataL * @param mixed * @return bool */ function isint($mixed) { return (bool)preg_match('/^[\d]+$/', $mixed); } // Example: is_int($_POST['age']); // Always false isint($_POST['age']); // true when it is a number ;] ?> Greatings ;-) ...

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