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Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 12:47:02 -0500
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: is_int/is_numeric possible bug
From: ben.litton@gmail.com ("Ben Litton")

is_numeric will test if it's a numeric string. Maybe is_int should do the  
same, but apparently it doesn't.

You could always do an is_numeric and if it returns true, cast it as an  
int.

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 12:42:10 -0500, Gareth Ardron <gareth@fission.org.uk>  
wrote:

> Matteo Beccati wrote:
>> Gareth Ardron wrote:
>>
>>> Ron Korving wrote:
>>>
>>>> Just out of curiosity, to which versions does this apply?
>>>
>>>
>>> 5.1.0b3->5.1.1 at least. Haven't got anything older to test on.
>>   As far as I know request variables have always been strings, and  
>> is_int() checks the variable type, not its content.
>>  I wonder how your code was previously working ;)
>
> It wasn't, I was just helping a mate do something. New code.
>
> But still, it seems very odd to me - I mean, why does is_numeric()  
> therefore work when is_int() doesn't - that seems like strange logic to  
> me (though I admit I'm not the most logical of people).
>
> I just don't see the need to have to do:
>
> if (is_numeric($_REQUEST['var']) && is_int($_REQUEST['var'])) {
>
> when, at least in my mind, is_int() should do the job by itself.



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