numbers

bunny1

03-08-2007, 01:38 AM

Is there a method to check that a variable is a number. For ex. for price?

thanks

Nightfire

03-08-2007, 02:16 AM

is_numeric($var) (http://php.net/is_numeric)

mmarif4u

03-08-2007, 04:08 AM

u can also try this:
if ( !preg_match('/^[0-9\]*$/', $cleaned_for_sql['hp']) )
{
echo "HP Number is not Valid Please try again.";

Inigoesdr

03-08-2007, 05:06 AM

u can also try this:
if ( !preg_match('/^[0-9\]*$/', $cleaned_for_sql['hp']) )
{
echo "HP Number is not Valid Please try again.";
Using regular expressions is really not necessary here, and it is a lot slower.