force string on php soap

[dingus]

hey guys this is a simple questions but probably a complicated answer

basicly im querying a soap server and it is returning a unique identifyer which is ment to be a string, but php is assiging it as a float and rounding, how can i force it to keep it as a string?

[sloth456]

Can you go more into depth.  Show some code.

 

I can't think of a reason off the top of my head why php would automatically change a string it gets from an external source.

[redarrow]

Read this please..

 

Dont think there a way to force a string to a type not sure theo...

 

<?php

//gettype will tell you the type the string is intriger so on.

//example

$name="redarrow";

echo " ."gettype($name)." ";

// there also the is_string() and is_int()

?>

 

[dingus]

i have no code to show as i don't know how to do it , basically I'm calling information from a soap server how ever the server is returning a unique identifier that is between 12 and 18 decimal digits in length my problem is simple for the longer ones php is making them a float and rounding to something along the lines of 4.356E13 etc now because i need to use this as a unique identifier latter on this wont do how can i tell the soap client it is meant to be a string?

[dingus]

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