<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >intval</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Variable Functions" HREF="ref.variables.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="import_request_variables" HREF="function.import-request-variables.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="is_array" HREF="function.is-array.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.import-request-variables.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.is-array.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.intval" ></A >intval</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN93905" ></A ><P > (PHP 3, PHP 4 )</P >intval -- Get integer value of a variable</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN93908" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >int <B CLASS="methodname" >intval</B > ( mixed var [, int base])<BR ></BR ><P > Returns the <A HREF="language.types.integer.html" ><B CLASS="type" >integer</B ></A > value of <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >var</I ></TT >, using the specified base for the conversion (the default is base 10). </P ><P > <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >var</I ></TT > may be any scalar type. You cannot use <B CLASS="function" >intval()</B > on <A HREF="language.types.array.html" ><B CLASS="type" >array</B ></A >s or <A HREF="language.types.object.html" ><B CLASS="type" >object</B ></A >s. </P ><DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B > The <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >base</I ></TT > argument for <B CLASS="function" >intval()</B > has no effect unless the <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >var</I ></TT > argument is a string. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ><P > See also <A HREF="function.floatval.html" ><B CLASS="function" >floatval()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.strval.html" ><B CLASS="function" >strval()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.settype.html" ><B CLASS="function" >settype()</B ></A > and <A HREF="language.types.type-juggling.html" >Type juggling</A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.import-request-variables.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.is-array.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >import_request_variables</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.variables.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >is_array</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >