numeric values trick.

[shaddow]

I have seend to many problems when comparing numbers with string values. I always had problems to keep in mind the string to numeric conversion functions.
But no more headeche,i've tryed a method that i've used in Asp and Javascript, and it worked.
Assuming it's a page number and you have register_globals enabled ...
search.php?p=100

//no more string to number conversion function
$p*=1;
//now you can compare as a number
if($p==0) $p=1;

$p now it will represent an numerical value
now assume that some p values
1. search.php?p=
$p*=1;//$p will be 0;
2. search.php?p=askdfoa
$p*=1;//$p still will be 0;
2. search.php?p=101
$p*=1;//$p will be 101 as number;


Maybe for somone is helpfull as it was for me


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[sleipnir214]

Why not just use PHP's type casting?

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[shaddow]

As i mentioned before, maybe you forgot how to use it.
I wonder how many knws or heard about type casting. I assume that most of programmers did but the others could not.

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