How to check if an integer is within a range of numbers in PHP?

Question

How can I check if a given number is within a range of numbers?

Answer 1

You could whip up a little helper function to do this:

/**
 * Determines if $number is between $min and $max
 *
 * @param  integer  $number     The number to test
 * @param  integer  $min        The minimum value in the range
 * @param  integer  $max        The maximum value in the range
 * @param  boolean  $inclusive  Whether the range should be inclusive or not
 * @return boolean              Whether the number was in the range
 */
function in_range($number, $min, $max, $inclusive = FALSE)
{
    if (is_int($number) && is_int($min) && is_int($max))
    {
        return $inclusive
            ? ($number >= $min && $number <= $max)
            : ($number > $min && $number < $max) ;
    }

    return FALSE;
}

And you would use it like so:

var_dump(in_range(5, 0, 10));        // TRUE
var_dump(in_range(1, 0, 1));         // FALSE
var_dump(in_range(1, 0, 1, TRUE));   // TRUE
var_dump(in_range(11, 0, 10, TRUE)); // FALSE

// etc...