Float conversions

[Anon]

Hello,

I have a small problem. I have four variables (from a form), for example:

$var1 = 66;
$var2 = 0;
$var3 = 0;
$var4 = 0;

I would like to be able (in some way or other) to go from that to a float, which in this case would equal 32.0. For Java people, I want Float.intBitsToFloat($variables);

Does it exist/could it be made??

Regards
Torvald

[Anon]

I'm not a Java programmer, but I looked at what Float.intBitsToFloat() does, and I don't see a correlation between your 4 variables and the IEEE 754 floating-point standard which is what Float.intBitsToFloat() takes care of. Could you clarify?

[Anon]

In PHP you can just say something like this:

$var1 = 66; // its now an int

$var1 += 0.5 // $var1 would now be and float containing 66.5

You could also force a variable to become something else by

settype($var1, 'float');

in addition you could use

gettype($var1);

witch would return a sring stating what type $var is e.g. "integer"...

Andreas Bernhardsen