FILTER_VALIDATE_INT FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_INT to sanitize and validate integer data of a variable in PHP

By using FILTER_VALIDATE_INT we can validate variables to check if integer data is present or not. Here is an simple example.

$book_id='-41'; // Change this value to get different result


if(filter_var($book_id,FILTER_VALIDATE_INT)){
echo " Yes validation passed ";
}else{
echo " No validation failed ";
}

By using filter id of FILTER_VALIDATE_INT the same script can be written as

if(filter_var($book_id,257)){

Now let us add one more option where we will assign minimum and maximum acceptable value of the integer. The option is added by using an array

$book_id='5'; // Change this value to get different result

if(filter_var($book_id,FILTER_VALIDATE_INT, array("options"=>array("min_range"=>-10, "max_range"=>50)) )){
echo " Yes validation passed ";
}else{
echo " No validation failed ";
}

In the above code we have used Minimum value and Maximum value for validating the integer variable. We can also specify only maximum or only minimum value by changing like this. ( One line only )

if(filter_var($book_id,FILTER_VALIDATE_INT, array("options"=>array("min_range"=>8)) )){

You can also read is_numeric.php to check data

FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_INT

Id of this function is 519. By using FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_INT we can remove all chars except digits and + - signs. Here is an example

$str='41!5~6+7'; // Change this value to get different result
$str = filter_var($str,FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_INT);
echo $str;

Output of this is here

4156+7

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