PHP equivalent of Java's Character.getNumericValue(char c)?

Question

Is there a PHP equivalent of Java's Character.getNumericValue(char c)?

Answer 1

Use the intval() function.

This will not handle letters or roman numerals the same way, but you could create your own method to do that for those cases. It will handle standard digits, though.

if (intval("2") === 2)
  echo("YAY!");