Check if number is decimal

Question

I need to check in PHP if user entered a decimal number (US way, with decimal point: X.XXX)

Any reliable way to do this?

Answer 1

if you want "10.00" to return true check Night Owl's answer

If you want to know if the decimals has a value you can use this answer.

Works with all kind of types (int, float, string)

if(fmod($val, 1) !== 0.00){
    // your code if its decimals has a value
} else {
    // your code if the decimals are .00, or is an integer
}

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Examples:

(fmod(1.00,    1) !== 0.00)    // returns false
(fmod(2,       1) !== 0.00)    // returns false
(fmod(3.01,    1) !== 0.00)    // returns true
(fmod(4.33333, 1) !== 0.00)    // returns true
(fmod(5.00000, 1) !== 0.00)    // returns false
(fmod('6.50',  1) !== 0.00)    // returns true

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Explanation:

fmod returns the floating point remainder (modulo) of the division of the arguments, (hence the (!== 0.00))

Modulus operator - why not use the modulus operator? E.g. ($val % 1 != 0)

From the PHP docs:

Operands of modulus are converted to integers (by stripping the decimal part) before processing.

Which will effectively destroys the op purpose, in other languages like javascript you can use the modulus operator