Personally I'd perform a query into MySQL and get what _it_ thinks the
values should be ... before doing anything else. It allows generality in
your error checking code.
Look at mysql_list_fields() et al.
mark C.
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From: "phpman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 12:44 PM
Subject: [PHP] how do i get a variable type? - not that simple
> 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.
>
>
>
> ""phpman"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> 99132e$ol8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:99132e$ol8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > 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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