(PHP 4, PHP 5)
gettype — Get the type of a variable
Returns the type of the PHP variable var .
Never use gettype() to test for a certain type, since the returned string may be subject to change in a future version. In addition, it is slow too, as it involves string comparison.
Instead, use the is_* functions.
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