<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Doubles (Floats)</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="Creating Variables" HREF="zend.variables.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Longs (Integers)" HREF="zend.variables.long.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Strings" HREF="zend.variables.string.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="section" 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="zend.variables.long.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 33. Creating Variables</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="zend.variables.string.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="section" ><H1 CLASS="section" ><A NAME="zend.variables.float" ></A >Doubles (Floats)</H1 ><P > Doubles are PHP's floats and are as easy to assign as longs, because their value is also contained directly in the union. The member in the <TT CLASS="envar" >zval.value</TT > container is <TT CLASS="envar" >dval</TT >; the corresponding type is <TT CLASS="literal" >IS_DOUBLE</TT >. <TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="programlisting" >zval *new_double; MAKE_STD_ZVAL(new_double); new_double->type = IS_DOUBLE; new_double->value.dval = 3.45;</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > Alternatively, you can use the macro <TT CLASS="literal" >ZVAL_DOUBLE</TT >: <TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="programlisting" >zval *new_double; MAKE_STD_ZVAL(new_double); ZVAL_DOUBLE(new_double, 3.45);</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </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="zend.variables.long.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="zend.variables.string.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Longs (Integers)</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="zend.variables.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Strings</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >