Question

I have the following string which i need to convert to integer or bigint.

$test="99999977706";

I tried:

echo (int)$test;
echo (integer)$test;
echo intval($test);

But they are all returning me 2147483647.

How do i convert the above string to a number or bigint?

Many many thanks for all suggestions.

Answer 1

MySQL isn’t going to know the difference. Just feed the string into your query as though it is a number without first type casting it in PHP.

For example:

$SQL = "SELECT * FROM table WHERE id = $test";