On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 18:53 +0530, Varuna Seneviratna wrote: > Why is the $todaydatestring data type displayed as Boolean? > > <?php > $todaydate=11092008; > echo "The data type of todaydate is > ".gettype($todaydate)."</br>"; > $mydatestring=settype($todaydate,"String"); > echo "The data type of mydatestring is ".gettype($mydatestring); > > > > > ?> > > Varuna Varuna, The settype() function returns a boolean response for success/failure. The variable $mydatestring is the response from setype() and not the type of the function. If you add this: echo "The data type of todaydate is ".gettype($todaydate); It will respond as you expect. Thanks, James -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
