strcmp equivelant for integers (intcmp) in PHP

Question

So we got this function in PHP

strcmp(string $1,string $2) // returns -1,0, or 1;

We Do not however, have an intcmp(); So i created one:

Answer 1

You could use

function intcmp($a,$b)
    {
    return ($a-$b) ? ($a-$b)/abs($a-$b) : 0;
    }

Although I don't see the point in using this function at all