On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 20:02 +0530, kranthi wrote: > thanks for the reply... just happened to see http://php.net/ternary > which explains the above result > > i want to explicitly type cast all the numbers passed via post (by > default they are strings) > is_numeric() is a option, but it will not be possible to differentiate > between int and float. > > $_POST['month'] !== (string)(int)$_POST['month'] > this is exactly what i want... but wont this take up memory when used > with array_walk_recursive() ? Just add the value to 0 and PHP will do the juggling for you: <?php $_POST = array( '1', '100', '100.1', '100.123' ); foreach( $_POST as $value ) { $value = 0 + $value; echo 'Value: '; var_dump( $value ); } ?> Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
