[SOLVED] Ints in speech marks?

[Epidemic]

Hey,

 

I am using this in my script.

 

$mins = 10000;

 

 

It is an int but I was wondering if it needed to be speech marks e.g

 

$mins = "10000";

[.josh]

by speech marks you mean quotes?  No, for the most part, php is a loosely typed language. It automatically converts data types as necessary.

 

<?php

$x = 10000; // initially considered an int
echo 5 * $x; // output 50000

$x = "10000"; // initially considered as a string
echo 5 * $x; // will still output 50000