Why is the $todaydatestring data type displayed as Boolean?

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Why is the $todaydatestring data type displayed as Boolean?

$todaydate=11092008;
echo "The data type of todaydate is
".gettype($todaydate)."
";
$mydatestring=settype($todaydate,"String");
echo "The data type of mydatestring is ".gettype($mydatestring);




?>

Varuna

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Re: Why is the $todaydatestring data type displayed as

On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 18:53 +0530, Varuna Seneviratna wrote:
> Why is the $todaydatestring data type displayed as Boolean?
>
> > $todaydate=11092008;
> echo "The data type of todaydate is
> ".gettype($todaydate)."
";
> $mydatestring=settype($todaydate,"String");
> echo "The data type of mydatestring is ".gettype($mydatestring);
>
>
>
>
> ?>
>
> Varuna

Varuna,

The settype() function returns a boolean response for success/failure.
The variable $mydatestring is the response from setype() and not the
type of the function. If you add this:

echo "The data type of todaydate is ".gettype($todaydate);

It will respond as you expect.

Thanks,
James



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