需要将表示0.XXXX浮点数的字符串值转换为PHP中的实际数值

Question

So I am trying to cast a string value of ie: '0.0000143' to actual FLOAT or DECIMAL number value (so it must not be a string after conversion), but the actual number of 0.0000143 as it needs to be sent through some API call and the API requires it to be structured like that and not have an actual string value.

Can anyone help me achieve this (or is it actually even possible to do)?. Since I am out of ideas

To make things more clear, I have tried all the type casting possibilities there are in PHP (it is not working as I do not need something like 1.4E-5 returned to me, but the actual value like 0.0000143).

Answer 1

You can use Type casting in order to achieve that:

$string = '0.0000143';
$intValue = (int)$string;
$floatValue = (float)$string;