[thelist] [PHP] variable conversion tip
Simon Willison
cs1spw at bath.ac.uk
Thu Nov 6 19:24:06 CST 2003
Paul Bennett wrote:
> Having trouble getting PHP to treat string data (POST or GET) as a
> number for a script calculation?
>
> Multiply the data you are using in calculation by 1 and then use it -
> this seems to tell PHP to treat the data as numeric
>
> # sample code
> $duration_in_seconds = ($HTTP_POST_VARS['p_duration'] * 1) * 60;
You can also use casts in PHP to achieve the same effect, like this:
$duration = (int)$HTTP_POST_VARS;
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Simon Willison
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