Convert boolean to integer value php

Question

Is there any builtin function for PHP that will take a boolean value and return its integer equivalent? 0 for FALSE, 1 for TRUE? Of course you can easily create a function to do so, I'm just asking if there is a builtin function inside of PHP. I already tried intval() and casting it to (int) but they didnt work, they return 0 in both cases of TRUE and FALSE.

Edit : the problem was that it wasnt really a boolean, it was a string "false", "true", php didnt detect the jquery post that it passed a boolean. problem solved, thanks !

Answer 1

Just add a "+" before your variable like this :

$myBool = true; 

var_dump(+$myBool);

ouputs: int(1);

Answer 2

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.integer.php

$myInt = (int)$myBoolean should work