PHP check if variable is a whole number

Question

I have this PHP code:

$entityElementCount = (-($highScore-$totalKeywordCount))/0.29;

What i want to know is, how to check whether $

Answer 1

I know this is a super old post but this is a simple function that will return a valid whole number and cast it to an int. Returns false if it fails.

function isWholeNumber($v)
{
    if ($v !='' && is_numeric($v) && strpos($v, '.') === false) {
        return (int)$v;
    }
    return false;
}

Usage :

$a = 43;
$b = 4.3;
$c = 'four_three';

isWholeNumber($a) // 43
isWholeNumber($b) // false
isWholeNumber($c) // false