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&gt;&gt;can anyone point me to an article on this?<br />
Article? Hmmm. Well the concept is quite simple, so I doubt you will find an article. Basically the general format is:<br />
(dataType) $variable<br />
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which just means/says &quot;treat whatever $variable holds as dataType&quot;. That's it. Other examples:<br />
(float)$x, (long)$x
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>>can anyone point me to an article on this?
Article? Hmmm. Well the concept is quite simple, so I doubt you will find an article. Basically the general format is:
(dataType) $variable

which just means/says "treat whatever $variable holds as dataType". That's it. Other examples:
(float)$x, (long)$x

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thanks, that's what i was looking for.
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Your welcome! &nbsp;I'm glad I could help. &nbsp;Thanks for the grade, the points and the fun question.<br />
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bol
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Your welcome!  I'm glad I could help.  Thanks for the grade, the points and the fun question.

bol

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going through a drupal tutorial i found this <br />
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(int) $a<br />
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it mentioned it was a typecast. i get it, however i'm looking around php.net and google and even drupal to find out more about it and what other typecasts i can use, if there are even others. <br />
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i know about all the ctype stuff, but i had never seen this before.<br />
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can anyone point me to an article on this?<br />
thanks<br />
tony
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going through a drupal tutorial i found this 

(int) $a

it mentioned it was a typecast. i get it, however i'm looking around php.net and google and even drupal to find out more about it and what other typecasts i can use, if there are even others. 

i know about all the ctype stuff, but i had never seen this before.

can anyone point me to an article on this?
thanks
tony

typecast question

PHP is a widely-used server-side scripting language especially suited for web development, powering tens of millions of sites from Facebook to personal WordPress blogs. PHP is often paired with the MySQL relational database, but includes support for most other mainstream databases. By utilizing different Server APIs, PHP can work on many different web servers as a server-side scripting language.