I would right a function that would return a result and try an match within
the different types.
if (isdate($a))
{
Dtype = date;
}
if (isdigit($a))
{
Dtype = int;
}
return (Dtype);
etc..
At 01:44 PM 3/18/01 -0500, phpman wrote:
>No guys. that doesn't work. Take this code for example...
>
>$a="3";
>echo(gettype($a));
>
>this returns string
>i need to find it as an integer or real or float for the sql. which by the
>way is MySQL.
>
>thank you for responding, but I already know that gettype and all the other
>is_* don't work for this.
>
>
>
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> > hello all,
> >
> > let's say i have this:
> > $a="varone=hello world|vartwo=2.44|varthree=100|";
> >
> > now i do this:
> >
> > $b=explode('|',$a);
> > $z=count($b);
> > for ($x=0;$x<$z;$x++) {
> > $tmp=explode('=',$b[$x]);
> > ....
> >
> > and i want to find out if $tmp[1] is a string or an integer (that's
>really
> > all I need to determine so i can put
> > together an SQL statement that puts single quotes around strings and none
> > around integers). Obviously
> > i won't know at design time all of the variables and their values. Thank
> > you.
> >
> > -dave
> >
> >
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