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The Object (compound) Type
Like every programming language, PHP offers the usual basic primitive types which can hold only one piece of data at a time (scalar). I am particularly fond of the "object" type (compound) because that allows me to group many basic PHP types together, and I can name it anything I want.
<?php
class Person
{
$firstName; // a PHP String
$middleName; // a PHP String
$lastName; // a PHP String
$age; // a PHP Integer
$hasDriversLicense; // a PHP Boolean
}
?>
Here, I have grouped several basic PHP types together, (3) Strings, (1) Integer, and (1) Boolean... then I named that group "Person". Since I used the proper syntax to do so, this code is pure PHP, which means that if you run this code, you would have an extra PHP "type" available to you in your scripts, like so:
<?php
$myAge = 16; // a PHP Integer - always available
$yourAge = 15.5; // a PHP Float - always available
$hasHair = true; // a PHP Boolean - always available
$greeting = "Hello World!" // a PHP String - always available
$person = new Person(); // a PHP Person - available NOW!
?>
You can make your own object types and have PHP execute it as if it were part of the PHP language itself. See more on classes and objects in this manual at: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.php
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介绍
PHP 支持八种原始类型。
四种标量类型：
两种复合类型： 最后是两种特殊类型： 为了确保代码的易读性，本手册还介绍了一些伪类型： 可能还会读到一些关于“双精度（double）”类型的参考。实际上 double 和 float 是相同的，由于一些历史的原因，这两个名称同时存在。变量的类型通常不是由程序员设定的，确切地说，是由 PHP 根据该变量使用的上下文在运行时决定的。
Note: 如果想查看某个表达式的值和类型，用 var_dump()。 如果只是想得到一个易读懂的类型的表达方式用于调试，用 gettype()。要查看某个类型，不要用 gettype()，而用 is_type 函数。以下是一些范例：
<?php
$bool = TRUE; // a boolean
$str = "foo"; // a string
$int = 12; // an integer
echo gettype($bool); // prints out "boolean"
echo gettype($str); // prints out "string"
// If this is an integer, increment it by four
if (is_int($int)) {
$int += 4;
}
// If $bool is a string, print it out
// (does not print out anything)
if (is_string($bool)) {
echo "String: $bool";
}
?>
如果要将一个变量强制转换为某类型，可以对其使用强制转换或者 settype() 函数。
注意变量根据其当时的类型在特定场合下会表现出不同的值。更多信息见类型戏法。此外，你还可以参考 PHP 类型比较表看不同类型相互比较的例子。
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Jeffrey
26-Oct-2008 06:31
26-Oct-2008 06:31
arjini at gmail dot com
06-Dec-2005 08:32
06-Dec-2005 08:32
Note that you can chain type castng:
var_dump((string)(int)false); //string(1) "0"
shahnaz khan
18-Mar-2005 12:40
18-Mar-2005 12:40
if we use gettype() before initializinf any variable it give NULL
for eg.
<?php
$foo;
echo gettype($foo);
?>
it will show
NULL
Trizor of www.freedom-uplink.org
30-Jun-2004 01:14
30-Jun-2004 01:14
The differance of float and double dates back to a FORTRAN standard. In FORTRAN Variables aren't as loosly written as in PHP and you had to define variable types(OH NOES!). FLOAT or REAL*4 (For all you VAX people out there) defined the variable as a standard precision floating point, with 4 bytes of memory allocated to it. DOUBLE PRECISION or REAL*8 (Again for the VAX) was identical to FLOAT or REAL*4, but with an 8 byte allocation of memory instead of a 4 byte allocation.
In fact most modern variable types date back to FORTRAN, except a string was called a CHARACHTER*N and you had to specify the length, or CHARACHTER*(*) for a variable length string. Boolean was LOGICAL, and there weren't yet objects, and there was support for complex numbers(a+bi).
Of course, most people reading this are web programmers and could care less about the mathematical background of programming.
NOTE: Object support was added to FORTRAN in the FORTRAN90 spec, and expanded with the FORTRAN94 spec, but by then C was the powerful force on the block, and most people who still use FORTRAN use the FORTRAN77.