Need help!

[Anon]

I have a table that is a varchar. I place numbers in the table aswell as text. Is there a way to see with one is text and which on is a interger?

I tryed using this

if (preg_match("/^[a-zA-Z]+$/",$userinfo[table])) {
  echo "string<br>";
} else {
  echo "interger<br>";
}

but for both a number and text I got the same thing.... is there a way to get around this?

[notionlogic]

According to my PHP manual, you should be able to do this:

if (is_string($userinfo[table])) {
echo "string<br>";
} else {
echo "interger<br>";
}

[Anon]

let's say $field is a field from your table:
<?
if (is_int ($field)) {echo "integer";}
else {echo "string";}
?>

[Anon]

still doesnt work... I think it comes out of the database being a string...this is a pain... maybe it cant be done