Type Casting

The What

What is type casting? With type casting, you are declaring the data type you want for a value by prefixing it with the data type:

(int) or (integer)

Casts the value to integer

(bool) or (boolean)

Casts the value to boolean

(string)

Casts the value to string

(float), (double), or (real)

Casts the value to float

(array)

Casts the value to array

(object)

Casts the value to object

(unset)

Casts the value to NULL (PHP 5)

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