an alphanumeric or string variable is used to represent any non numeric value. it can be represented by one or more letters or digits but it should start with a letter and end with a dollar sign
some examples are a$,r45$ etc....
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Integers - The "is_int()" function can be used to check if a variable is has an integer for its value. ---- is_int($variable); // Returns true if $variable is an integer - otherwise false ---- Numeric Strings - Numeric strings are strings with numbers (or things that count as numbers) in them. Numeric-string variables are not integer variables. Numeric-string variables are passed on through forms, instead of integer variables - if you were wondering. Check form values using string formats, and not integer formats. The "is_numeric()" function can be used to check if a variable is a string with numbers - and only numbers - in it (except things that add up to be numbers). ---- is_numeric($variable); // Returns true if $variable is a string, and only contains numbers (broadly speaking) - false otherwise ---- Strings - String values are just text, basically. String variables can contain integers, but that does not make it an integer-type variable - it makes it a numeric string variable. The "is_string" function can be used to check if a variable contains the value of a string. ---- is_string($variable); // Returns true if $variable is a string - false otherwise
You can use single quotes $variable = 'string'; You can use double quotes $variable = "string"; You can use the Heredoc method $variable = <<<EOT Very Long String EOT; And you can use the Nowdoc method (after PHP 5.3.0) $variable = <<<'EOT' Very Long String EOT;
A string variable is a programming language construct that holds text. For example, the text "The sky is blue" could be stored to a string variable, then later in the program, that text could be displayed.
The same way you would in a regular java program. int i = 10; String s = i + ""; after the above line of code the variable s will have "10" as a string value...
PHP provides a function called empty($var), which tests if $var is "empty." Empty has an odd definition, since the function returns true if the variable loosely equates to False. Although a zero-length string would be considered empty, so would the string "0" (among other irrelevant values).To accept the value "0" from a field, use strlen($var). It tests the length of any variable, after casting it to a string. If this function truly equals integer zero (compared with triple-equals), the variable must be empty.