<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>Convert a variant into a new variant object of another type</title>
</head>
<body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;">
<div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.variant-and.html">variant_and</a></div>
<div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="function.variant-cat.html">variant_cat</a></div>
<div class="up"><a href="ref.com.html">COM Functions</a></div>
<div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div>
</div><hr /><div id="function.variant-cast" class="refentry">
<div class="refnamediv">
<h1 class="refname">variant_cast</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 5)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">variant_cast</span> — <span class="dc-title">Convert a variant into a new variant object of another type</span></p>
</div>
<div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-function.variant-cast-description">
<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
<div class="methodsynopsis dc-description">
<span class="type"><a href="class.variant.html" class="type variant">variant</a></span> <span class="methodname"><strong>variant_cast</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type"><a href="class.variant.html" class="type variant">variant</a></span> <code class="parameter">$variant</code></span>
, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">int</span> <code class="parameter">$type</code></span>
)</div>
<p class="para rdfs-comment">
This function makes a copy of <em><code class="parameter">variant</code></em> and then
performs a variant cast operation to force the copy to have the type
given by <em><code class="parameter">type</code></em>.
</p>
<p class="para">
This function wraps VariantChangeType() in the COM library; consult MSDN
for more information.
</p>
</div>
<div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-function.variant-cast-parameters">
<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
<p class="para">
<dl>
<dt>
<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">variant</code></em></span>
<dd>
<p class="para">
The variant.
</p>
</dd>
</dt>
<dt>
<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">type</code></em></span>
<dd>
<p class="para">
<em><code class="parameter">type</code></em> should be one of the
<strong><code>VT_XXX</code></strong> constants.
</p>
</dd>
</dt>
</dl>
</p>
</div>
<div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-function.variant-cast-returnvalues">
<h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
<p class="para">
Returns a <strong><code>VT_DATE</code></strong> variant.
</p>
</div>
<div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-function.variant-cast-seealso">
<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
<p class="para">
<ul class="simplelist">
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.variant-set-type.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">variant_set_type()</a> - Convert a variant into another type "in-place"</span></li>
</ul>
</p>
</div>
</div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;">
<div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.variant-and.html">variant_and</a></div>
<div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="function.variant-cat.html">variant_cat</a></div>
<div class="up"><a href="ref.com.html">COM Functions</a></div>
<div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div>
</div></body></html>
