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is_int

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

is_int — Find whether the type of a variable is integer

Description

Note:

To test if a variable is a number or a numeric string (such as form input, which is always a string), you must useis_numeric().

Parameters

value

The variable being evaluated.

Return Values

Returns [true](reserved.constants.php#constant.true) if value is an int,[false](reserved.constants.php#constant.false) otherwise.

Examples

Example #1 is_int() example

<?php $values = array(23, "23", 23.5, "23.5", null, true, false); foreach ($values as $value) { echo "is_int("; var_export($value); echo ") = "; var_dump(is_int($value)); } ?>

The above example will output:

is_int(23) = bool(true) is_int('23') = bool(false) is_int(23.5) = bool(false) is_int('23.5') = bool(false) is_int(NULL) = bool(false) is_int(true) = bool(false) is_int(false) = bool(false)

See Also

• is_bool() - Finds out whether a variable is a boolean
• is_float() - Finds whether the type of a variable is float
• is_numeric() - Finds whether a variable is a number or a numeric string
• is_string() - Find whether the type of a variable is string
• is_array() - Finds whether a variable is an array
• is_object() - Finds whether a variable is an object

Found A Problem?

Simon Neaves ¶

17 years ago

`I've found that both that is_int and ctype_digit don't behave quite as I'd expect, so I made a simple function called isInteger which does. I hope somebody finds it useful.

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Robin ¶

15 years ago

`Keep in mind that is_int() operates in signed fashion, not unsigned, and is limited to the word size of the environment php is running in.

In a 32-bit environment:

In a 64-bit environment:

If you find yourself deployed in a 32-bit environment where you are required to deal with numeric confirmation of integers (and integers only) potentially breaching the 32-bit span, you can combine is_int() with is_float() to guarantee a cover of the full, signed 64-bit span:

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e dot sand at elisand dot com ¶

16 years ago

`Simon Neaves was close on explaining why his function is perfect choice for testing for an int (as possibly most people would need). He made some errors on his ctype_digit() output though - possibly a typo, or maybe a bug in his version of PHP at the time.

The correct output for parts of his examples should be:

As you can see, the reason why using just ctype_digit() may not always work is because it only returns TRUE when given a string as input - given a number value and it returns FALSE (which may be unexpected).

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andre dot roesti at 7flex dot net ¶

14 years ago

`With this function you can check if every of multiple variables are int. This is a little more comfortable than writing 'is_int' for every variable you've got.

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davide dot renzi at gmail dot com ¶

9 years ago

`I've found a faster way of determining an integer.
On my env, this method takes about half the time of using is_int().

Cast the value then check if it is identical to the original.

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petepostma at gmail dot spam dot com ¶

12 years ago

`There is a versa to the vice of this int only type check.

is_int( $integer_type) will only return true, if the TYPE is int, not the value
ctype_digit( $string_type) will only return true if the TYPE is string, and its value is INT

therefore:
return ( is_int($value) || ctype_digit($value) );

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nicolas dot giraud at actiane dot com ¶

12 years ago

`Just a shorter way to check if your variable is an int or a string containing a int without others digit than 0 to 9 :

Short & cool :)

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Vasiliy Makogon ¶

9 years ago

`If you want detect integer of float values, which presents as pure int or float, and presents as string values, use this functions:

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me at rexxars dot com ¶

15 years ago

`I was looking for the fastest way to check for an unsigned integer which supported large numbers like 4318943448871348 or 0xFFFFFFFF.

Fastest I came up with is this:

Will return true on 1515, 0xFFFFFFFF, '3515' and '1365158185855141'.
Will return false on 0.1515, '415.4134' and '-616'.

Be aware though, before PHP 5.1.0 this will return true on an empty string.

According to my benchmarks this is about 30% faster than the regex ^\d+$.

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gabe at websaviour dot com ¶

21 years ago

`Although this can be inferred from the documentation, beware of numeric strings. I ran into the problem in a MySQL app where I would either SELECT an INT PRIMARY KEY or INSERT a new record and use mysql_insert_id() to get the KEY before continuing onto the new section.

I used is_int() to make sure the subsequent queries wouldn't break when using the key variable. Unfortunately I failed to realize that while mysql_insert_id() returns an int, mysql_result() always returns a string even if you are SELECTing from an INT field.

Spent at least 30 minutes trying to figure out why existing records weren't getting linked, but new records would link fine. I ended up using intval() on mysql_result() to make sure subsequent queries still always work.

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