Cast as Decimal in PHP

mholmes3038 · April 8, 2020, 4:44pm

Can not believe I have to ask, Google failed me. Just a future reference type question. How do you cast a property as decimal?

`var (decimal)$price;`

astonecipher · April 8, 2020, 6:30pm

Not sure if this is what you are asking for or not, https://floating-point-gui.de/languages/php/

mholmes3038 · April 9, 2020, 2:05am

I guess my question is do i have the correct syntax for casting a property as a decimal? I’m coming from .Net world c# so we always declare the data type.

astonecipher · April 9, 2020, 1:19pm

Since php is duck typed, the type is interpreted and doesn’t get declaration. So the var is not needed like you would use for an open ended declaration in C#

$dec = 1.50;
echo gettype($dec);
// double