php - Is there a difference between is_int() and ctype_digit()?

Question

Is one more preferred, or performs better over the other?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/236406/is-there-a-difference-between-is-int-and-ctype-digit

Answer 1

is_int() returns true if the argument is an integer type, ctype_digit() takes a string argument and returns true if all the characters in the string are digits.

Example:

┌──────────┬───────────┬────────────────┐
│          │  is_int:  │  ctype_digit:  │
├──────────┼───────────┼────────────────┤
│ 123      │  true     │  false         │
├──────────┼───────────┼────────────────┤
│ 12.3     │  false    │  false         │
├──────────┼───────────┼────────────────┤
│ "123"    │  false    │  true          │
├──────────┼───────────┼────────────────┤
│ "12.3"   │  false    │  false         │
├──────────┼───────────┼────────────────┤
│ "-1"     │  false    │  false         │
├──────────┼───────────┼────────────────┤
│ -1       │  true     │  false         │
└──────────┴───────────┴────────────────┘