<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Longs (Integers)</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="Creating Variables" HREF="zend.variables.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Doubles (Floats)" HREF="zend.variables.float.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.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.float.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="section" ><H1 CLASS="section" ><A NAME="zend.variables.long" ></A >Longs (Integers)</H1 ><P >Now let's get to the assignment of data to variables, starting with longs. Longs are PHP's integers and are very simple to store. Looking at the <TT CLASS="envar" >zval.value</TT > container structure discussed earlier in this chapter, you can see that the long data type is directly contained in the union, namely in the <TT CLASS="envar" >lval</TT > field. The corresponding <TT CLASS="envar" >type</TT > value for longs is <TT CLASS="literal" >IS_LONG</TT > (see <A HREF="zend.variables.long.html#example.create-long" >Example 33-2</A >). <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="example.create-long" ></A ><P ><B >Example 33-2. Creation of a long.</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="programlisting" >zval *new_long; MAKE_STD_ZVAL(new_long); new_long->type = IS_LONG; new_long->value.lval = 10;</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > Alternatively, you can use the macro <TT CLASS="literal" >ZVAL_LONG</TT >: <TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="programlisting" >zval *new_long; MAKE_STD_ZVAL(new_long); ZVAL_LONG(new_long, 10);</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.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.float.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Creating Variables</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" >Doubles (Floats)</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >