Answer Posted / rakesh kumar nautiyal
Type Juggling
PHP does not require (or support) explicit type definition
in variable declaration; a variable's type is determined by
the context in which that variable is used. That is to say,
if you assign a string value to variable $var, $var becomes
a string. If you then assign an integer value to $var, it
becomes an integer.
An example of PHP's automatic type conversion is the
addition operator '+'. If any of the operands is a float,
then all operands are evaluated as floats, and the result
will be a float. Otherwise, the operands will be
interpreted as integers, and the result will also be an
integer. Note that this does NOT change the types of the
operands themselves; the only change is in how the operands
are evaluated.
<?php
$foo = "0"; // $foo is string (ASCII 48)
$foo += 2; // $foo is now an integer (2)
$foo = $foo + 1.3; // $foo is now a float (3.3)
$foo = 5 + "10 Little Piggies"; // $foo is integer (15)
$foo = 5 + "10 Small Pigs"; // $foo is integer (15)
?>
If the last two examples above seem odd, see String
conversion to numbers.
If you wish to force a variable to be evaluated as a
certain type, see the section on Type casting. If you wish
to change the type of a variable, see settype().
If you would like to test any of the examples in this
section, you can use the var_dump() function.
Note: The behaviour of an automatic conversion to array is
currently undefined.
<?php
$a = "1"; // $a is a string
$a[0] = "f"; // What about string offsets? What happens?
?>
Since PHP (for historical reasons) supports indexing into
strings via offsets using the same syntax as array
indexing, the example above leads to a problem: should $a
become an array with its first element being "f", or
should "f" become the first character of the string $a?
The current versions of PHP interpret the second assignment
as a string offset identification, so $a becomes "f", the
result of this automatic conversion however should be
considered undefined. PHP 4 introduced the new curly
bracket syntax to access characters in string, use this
syntax instead of the one presented above:
<?php
$a = "abc"; // $a is a string
$a{1} = "f"; // $a is now "afc"
?>
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