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setbased/helper-cast
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Safely cast mixed values to bool, float, int, or string

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Cast
====

[](#cast)

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Rationale
=========

[](#rationale)

What is the purpose of this package and why is it necessary? PHP is a great language, however is has some quirks. One of them is that PHP will convert any string to an integer even when strict type is set.

The following code will not cause any error or warning (tested with PHP 7.2.12):

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