PHP: Type Juggling - Manual - PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

The casts allowed are: (int), (integer) - cast to integer (bool), (boolean) - cast to boolean (float), (double), (real) - cast to float (string) - cast to string (array) - cast to array (object) - cast to object (unset) - cast to NULL (PHP 5) (binary) cas

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