Either I googled wrong or I'm the first asking for this actually really simple functionality.
I have strings like "18.439", "500", "20.000" that need to be converted into integers: 18439, 500, 20000 (where I live, we use points as thousand seperators).
I was hoping for intval() to handle this, as in C# you can add a second parameter NumberStyles.AllowThousands which perfectly works.