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[The-Last-Escape]

<?php

    $bool = true;

    print "Bool is set to $bool\n";

    $bool = false;

    print "Bool is set to ";

    print (int)$bool;

?>

I was wondering about one thing in this script.

what is the (int) mean.  I know bool is just a variable create which is short fo boolean, and it's set to the booleon true, here is the website it came off of the exact page actually I was just wondering if int was a preset something in php or something he named himself or what, and what it does.

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[roopurt18]

The (int) is a typecast; it tells the interpretor to treat the variable as the data type within the parentheses, in this case as an integer.

 

If you remove the typecast, the script will output:

Bool is set to true
Bool is set to

 

This is because when you echo false, nothing is echoed.  By using the typecast, the output becomes:

Bool is set to true
Bool is set to 0

 

[The-Last-Escape]

Thanks Man