What's the maximum value for an int in PHP?

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From the PHP manual:

The size of an integer is platform-dependent, although a maximum value of about two billion is the usual value (that's 32 bits signed). PHP does not support unsigned integers. Integer size can be determined using the constant PHP_INT_SIZE, and maximum value using the constant PHP_INT_MAX since PHP 4.4.0 and PHP 5.0.5.

64-bit platforms usually have a maximum value of about 9E18, except on Windows prior to PHP 7, where it was always 32 bit.

32-bit builds of PHP:

• Integers can be from -2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647 (~ ± 2 billion)

64-bit builds of PHP:

• Integers can be from -9,223,372,036,854,775,808 to 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 (~ ± 9 quintillion)

Numbers are inclusive.

Note: some 64-bit builds once used 32-bit integers, particularly older Windows builds of PHP

Values outside of these ranges are represented by floating point values, as are non-integer values within these ranges. The interpreter will automatically determine when this switch to floating point needs to happen based on whether the result value of a calculation can't be represented as an integer.

PHP has no support for "unsigned" integers as such, limiting the maximum value of all integers to the range of a "signed" integer.

The size of PHP ints is platform dependent:

The size of an integer is platform-dependent, although a maximum value of about two billion is the usual value (that's 32 bits signed). PHP does not support unsigned integers. Integer size can be determined using the constant PHP_INT_SIZE, and maximum value using the constant PHP_INT_MAX since PHP 4.4.0 and PHP 5.0.5.

PHP 6 adds "longs" (64 bit ints).

(a little bit late, but could be useful)

Only trust PHP_INT_MAX and PHP_INT_SIZE, this value vary on your arch (32/64 bits) and your OS...

Any other "guess" or "hint" can be false.

Ah I found it: 2³² - 1 (2147483647)

http://au2.php.net/int

Integer overflow

If PHP encounters a number beyond the bounds of the integer type, it will be interpreted as a float instead. Also, an operation which results in a number beyond the bounds of the integer type will return a float instead.

<?php
$large_number =  2147483647;
var_dump($large_number);
// output: int(2147483647)

$large_number =  2147483648;
var_dump($large_number);
// output: float(2147483648)

It depends on your OS, but 2147483647 is the usual value, according to the manual.

It subjects to architecture of the server on which PHP runs. For 64-bit,

print PHP_INT_MIN . ", ” . PHP_INT_MAX; yields -9223372036854775808, 9223372036854775807