Comments on: Converting a PHP string number into a numeric value

By: Funmarkaz

Funmarkaz — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:54:04 +0000

You can use intval()

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:42:15 +0000

@Rarst + Lyndi: You’re right, these things are often a lot easier than they first seem. Also, Twitter does seem a great way of asking these questions. Just a shame in my case I asked the question AFTER I had spent the time

By: Lyndi

Lyndi — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:59:10 +0000

Any hour spent coding cannot be a waste, you always learn something from the experience. At least now we know that Twitter can indeed be very handy.

By: Rarst

Rarst — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:24:42 +0000

If you feel like inventing function that should be native – you usually are.