Using is_string() on an object will always return false (even with __toString()).
<?php
class B {
public function __toString() {
return "Instances of B() can be treated as a strings!\n";
}
}
$b = new B();
print($b); //Instances of B() can be treated as a strings!
print(is_string($b) ? 'true' : 'false'); //false
?>
is_string
(PHP 4, PHP 5)
is_string — Find whether the type of a variable is string
Parametre
-
var -
The variable being evaluated.
Returnerings Værdier
Returns TRUE if var is of type string,
FALSE otherwise.
Eksempler
Eksempel #1 is_string() example
<?php
if (is_string("23")) {
echo "is string\n";
} else {
echo "is not a string\n";
}
var_dump(is_string('abc'));
var_dump(is_string("23"));
var_dump(is_string(23.5));
var_dump(is_string(true));
?>
The above example will output:
is string bool(true) bool(true) bool(false) bool(false)
Se også
- is_float() - Finds whether the type of a variable is float
- is_int() - Find whether the type of a variable is integer
- is_bool() - Finds out whether a variable is a boolean
- is_object() - Finds whether a variable is an object
- is_array() - Finds whether a variable is an array
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User Contributed Notes 3 notes
laszlo dot heredy shift-two gmail etc ¶
10 years ago
Peter Barney ¶
6 years ago
As noted earlier, is_string() returns false on an object that has a __toString() method. Here is a simple way to do a check that will work:
<?php
// determine if the passed argument can be treated like a string.
function is_stringy($text) {
return (is_string($text) || (is_object($text) && method_exists($text, '__toString' ));
}
jcours at numifinancial dot com ¶
3 years ago
is_string() of an integer or float returns false, so it might be useful to include an is_numeric() when checking if a value is stringy:
<?php
function is_stringy($val) {
return (is_string($val) || is_numeric($val)
|| (is_object($val) && method_exists($val, '__toString')));
}
?>
Test code (which should print "vector N OK" for each test vector):
<?php
foreach ([[NULL, false], [false, false], [true, false],
[0, true], [[], false], [0.1, true], ["x", true],
["", true], [new Exception("x"), true]] as $idx => $vector) {
list ($val, $expected) = $vector;
if (is_stringy($val) != $expected) {
print ("mismatch at $idx\n");
var_dump($val);
} else {
print ("vector $idx OK\n");
}
}
?>
