I wanted to use the php filer_var function but it's returning a wrong result, it seems that it doesn't take into account the range:
$v = 54;
$int_opts = array (
'min_range' => 0,
'max_range' => 24
);
if ( filter_var($v, FILTER_VALIDATE_INT, $int_opts) ) echo 'an integer';
else echo 'not an integer';
This shouldn't be an integer as 54 is not between 0 and 24, but it returns true and echoes "an integer".
What's the problem here?
Thanks.
The "options" array needs to have a member named "options". From the manual:
$options = array(
'options' => array(
'default' => 3, // value to return if the filter fails
// other options here
'min_range' => 0
),
'flags' => FILTER_FLAG_ALLOW_OCTAL,
);
you're not passing that so the behaviour displayed is okay.
$options = array();
$options['options']['min_range'] = 0;
$options['options']['max_range'] = 24;
$options['flags'] = FILTER_FLAG_ALLOW_OCTAL;
var_dump(filter_var(54, FILTER_VALIDATE_INT, $options)); //bool(false)
var_dump(filter_var(21, FILTER_VALIDATE_INT, $options)); //int(21)
It works this way.
About FILTER_FLAG_ALLOW_OCTAL
:
Regards inputs starting with a zero (0) as octal numbers. This only allows the succeeding digits to be 0-7. According to this:
var_dump(filter_var(06, FILTER_VALIDATE_INT, $options)); //int(6)
var_dump(filter_var(09, FILTER_VALIDATE_INT, $options)); //int(0)
Version 5.3.8 purports to have fixed bug #47745 which meant that FILTER_VALIDATE_INT wasn't allowing a minimum integer.
The file you might want to check is ext/filter/logical_filters.c
void php_filter_int(PHP_INPUT_FILTER_PARAM_DECL) /* {{{ */
{
....