(PHP 4, PHP 5)
gettype — Get the type of a variable
Returns the type of the PHP variable var. For
type checking, use is_* functions.
var
The variable being type checked.
Possibles values for the returned string are:
Example #1 gettype() example
<?php
$data = array(1, 1., NULL, new stdClass, 'foo');
foreach ($data as $value) {
echo gettype($value), "\n";
}
?>
The above example will output something similar to:
integer double NULL object string