settype

Example 1406. Basic use of settype()

$title = '1001 Arabian Nights';
settype ($title, 'integer')
    or die ('Could not convert $title from type <i>string</i> to type <i>integer</i>');
print $title;

Example 1407. Show how setting the type modifies the value of a variable

<pre>
<?
// Make a small class for testing purposes
class test {
    var $foo = 'bar';
}

// Make a list of types to convert a variable to
$types  = array ("integer", "double", "string", "array", "object");

// Make a list of values to convert
$values = array (1, 1.1, "Hi", array (1, "dos"), new test (), opendir ('.'));

// Loop through each of the values
foreach ($values as $value) {
    print 'Original Value: ';
    print_r ($value);
    print "\nOriginal Type : " . gettype ($value);
    print '<blockquote>';

    // Loop through each of the types
    // and convert the value to the current type
    foreach ($types as $type) {
        $temp = $value;
        settype ($temp, $type);

        print "<tt>settype(\$value, '$type')</tt> converts <tt>$value</tt> to: <blockquote>";
        var_dump ($temp);
        print '</blockquote><br />';
    }
    print '</blockquote>';
}
?>
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