Settype array to "string"

[rhijaen]

I'm having a problem..some of the values in my array are integer and some are "supposed" to be string. Though I think since the first are integer, when it gets to filling in a string, it knows it's not an integer so it passes 0 to the array value.

 

Here's an example:

while($newArray = mysql_fetch_array($result)){	
$b_p_light[$count] = $newArray['b_p_light'];
$count++;
}

 

When it gets to a string, it returns it as 0. How can I fix this to have it all strings or some integer and some string?

[rhijaen]

An example of one of the strings is self.true_light *25/100

 

They are all varchar(50) in the mysql db.

[Jeremysr]

You can change an integer to a string like this:

 

$number = 3;
$string = strval($number); // $string now equals "3".

[rhijaen]

I used if (!empty($b_p_air)) and it worked..where if ($b_p_air != 0) didn't work