At 5:30 PM +0100 12/1/05, Jochem Maas wrote:
Steve Edberg wrote:
Only problem with intval() is that it returns 0 (a valid value) on
I knew that. :-)
I figured so, but I thought I'd make it explicit for the mailing list...
failure, so we need to check for 0 first. Adding more secure checks
do we? given that FALSE casts to 0.
would make this more than just a one-liner, eg;
$_CLEAN['x'] = false;
if (isset($_POST['x'])) {
if (0 == 1*$_POST['x']) {
I find the 1*_POST['x'] line a bit odd. why do you bother with the '1*' ?
I tend to use that to explicitly cast things to numeric; usually not
necessary, but I have occasionally hit situations where something got
misinterpreted, so I habitually do the 1*.
$_CLEAN['x'] = 0;
} else {
$x = intval($_POST['x']);
if ($x > 0 && $x == 1*$_POST['x']) {
this is wrong ... if $_POST['x'] is '5.5' this won't fly
but is valid according to the OP.
I guess I was interpreting the OP differently; your version is the
shortest method I can see to force the input to an integer (but to
ensure the non-negative requirement, one should say
$_CLEAN['x'] = abs(intval(@$_POST['x']));
). I was adding extra code to indicate an invalid entry as false. And
I think that 5.5 would not be considered valid - to quote: "What is
the shortest possible check to ensure that a field coming from a form
as a text type input is either a positive integer or 0, but that also
accepts/converts 1.0 or 5.00 as input?"
Although, with more caffeine in my system, doing something like
$x = abs(intval(@$_POST['x']));
$_CLEAN['x'] = isset($_POST['x']) ? ($x == $_POST['x'] ? $x :
false) : false;
or, to be more obfuscated,
$_CLEAN['x'] = isset($_POST['x']) ? (($x =
abs(intval(@$_POST['x']))) == $_POST['x'] ? $x : false) : false;
should do what I was trying to do, more succinctly.
- slightly more awake steve
$_CLEAN['x'] = $x;
}
}
}
Reducing to a two-liner, if you *really* want:
$x = intval(@$_POST['x']);
$_CLEAN['x'] = (isset($_POST['x']) ? ((0 == 1*$_POST['x']) ? 0 :
(($x > 0 && $x == 1*$_POST['x']) ? $x : false)) : false);
(all untested)
That *should* return false unless all your conditions are set, in
which case it will return your cardinal number (non-negative
integer).
Disclaimer: Currently operating on caffeine deficit; it's possible
I'm answering a question no one asked.
now that is funny :-)
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