Removing all decimals in PHP

Question

get this from my database:

252.587254564

Well i wanna remove the .587254564 and keep the 252, how can i do that?

Answer 1

As Tricker mentioned you can round the value down or you can just cast it to int like so:

$variable = 252.587254564; // this is of type double
$variable = (int)$variable; // this will cast the type from double to int causing it to strip the floating point.