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In PHP versions before 4.4.1, ctype functions have a bug handling very large integers.
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34645
See Crimson's comment under ctype_digit, or this test code from the bug:
<?php
$id = 394829384;
var_dump($id);
ctype_digit($id);
var_dump($id);
?>
Expected result:
----------------
int(394829384)
int(394829384)
Actual result:
--------------
int(394829384)
NULL
The fix is to cast it as a string:
<?php
ctype_digit((string)$id);
?>
... or use a current version of PHP!
XV. Character Type Functions
Introduction
The functions provided by this extension check whether a character or string falls into a certain character class according to the current locale (see also setlocale()).
When called with an integer argument these functions behave exactly like their C counterparts from ctype.h.
When called with a string argument they will check every character in the string and will only return TRUE if every character in the string matches the requested criteria. When called with an empty string the result will always be TRUE.
Passing anything else but a string or integer will return FALSE immediately.
It should be noted that ctype functions are always prefered over regular expressions, and even to some equivalent str_* and is_* functions. This is because of the fact that ctype uses a native C library and thus processes significantly faster.
Requirements
None besides functions from the standard C library which are always available.
Installation
Beginning with PHP 4.2.0 these functions are enabled by default. For older versions you have to configure and compile PHP with --enable-ctype. You can disable ctype support with --disable-ctype.
The windows version of PHP has built in support for this extension. You do not need to load any additional extension in order to use these functions.
Not: Builtin support for ctype is available with PHP 4.3.0.
Runtime Configuration
This extension has no configuration directives defined in php.ini.
Resource Types
This extension has no resource types defined.
Predefined Constants
This extension has no constants defined.
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- ctype_alnum -- Check for alphanumeric character(s)
- ctype_alpha -- Check for alphabetic character(s)
- ctype_cntrl -- Check for control character(s)
- ctype_digit -- Check for numeric character(s)
- ctype_graph -- Check for any printable character(s) except space
- ctype_lower -- Check for lowercase character(s)
- ctype_print -- Check for printable character(s)
- ctype_punct -- Check for any printable character which is not whitespace or an alphanumeric character
- ctype_space -- Check for whitespace character(s)
- ctype_upper -- Check for uppercase character(s)
- ctype_xdigit -- Check for character(s) representing a hexadecimal digit
add a note
User Contributed NotesCharacter Type Functions
14-Oct-2006 07:44
avarab at gmail dot com
03-Jan-2006 12:58
03-Jan-2006 12:58
In case the ctype_*() functions aren't compiled in your PHP and you can't recompile for some reason (e.g. shared host) you can use the compatability functions from the MediaWiki project which use preg_* as a replacement[1], removing lines 2 and 3 in the source should make them suitable for usage elsewhere.
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1. A tinyurl because the submission script complained about long lines: http://tinyurl.com/7hz4l
1. The real url split up:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/
wikipedia/phase3/includes/compatability/ctype.php