Posts Tagged ‘php’

Using is_numeric() instead of is_int() for request vars in PHP

So, I finished pulling my hair out trying to debug why is_int wasn’t correctly checking some request vars i was passing via a form.  The php code was checking if( is_int( $_REQUEST['var'] ) ) { //do something } And always failed even if the var was an actual integer.  Unfortunately it seems that PHP interprets [...]