Question

I’m working on a project in PHP, and trying to use one of the parameters in $_POST, unfortunately I want to send the result to a web service, which only accepts the parameter as integer. So I have to cast the type with (int) but this work will change the value of parameter
for instance its something like this:

$o =  4924869620;
$c = (int) $o;

then c will have the value 629902324

Why this thing happen? how can I keep the value the same?? I have also used intval() and it will also change the value

Answer 1

Integers range starts at −2.147.483.648 and ends at 2.147.483.647 – your number is bigger than the maximal range. Use another datatype, for example float, instead.

Float has a range that starts at 1.5E-45 and goes to 3.4E38 ;o)