Question

There is “date_stamp” field in the database table. Field type is bigint(20).
I get this value in my code.

 $dateStamp = $model->getDateStamp();

I need $dateStamp to be int or long. But It’s string. How can I force it to be int or long?

Answer 1

As I need quick solution, I have maden new function in the model.

public function getFloatDateStamp(){
    $dateStamp = (float) $this->getDateStamp();
    return $dateStamp;   
}