Jun 24, 2009 · There are a number of ways to "convert" an integer to a string in PHP. The traditional computer science way would be to cast the variable as a string:

Dec 16, 2011 · As U may know in javaScript we can use parseInt() to convert string=>int or parseFloat() to convert string=>float. but in general javaScript use Number() to convert string => number. I want a similar method in php?

Jul 30, 2011 · those other languages aren't dynamically typed, so they don't need to differentiate between . and + - if you know it's a string, you can use + to concatenate because it's typed as string. You don't know that in PHP.

Aug 25, 2015 · I've been trying to convert string to int in PHP to operate on it, but PHP keeps interpreting it as 0. var ...

Convert string to int in PHP. 4. Converting String to int in PHP. 0. Converting string to integer from ...

Oct 27, 2008 · Cast came out slightly in front and a big performance improvement over all: string coerce: 1.9255340099335 string cast: 1.5142338275909 string settype: 4.149735212326 string fail coerce: 1.2346560955048 string fail cast: 1.3967711925507 string fail settype: 4.149735212326

Jul 15, 2012 · It's failing because it's prefixed with a 0, making PHP attempt to interpret it as an octal number, where 8 is not a valid octal digit as it parses the string, so you get 0.

May 5, 2009 · Ignoring the misspellings of 'length' above, there are a few ways to explicitly convert a string into an integer in PHP. Usually this conversion will happen automatically. Take the following code:

Feb 13, 2015 · beware of (int), the maximum supported value is 2147483647, so if you have (int)2222222222 it will return 2147483647 – Roberto Sepúlveda Bravo Commented Feb 13, 2019 at 11:54

filter_var should do it:. var_dump(filter_var('2', FILTER_VALIDATE_INT)); // 2 var_dump(filter_var('2.0', FILTER_VALIDATE_INT)); // false var_dump(filter_var('2.1 ...