PHP — Convert string to bigint

Question

I have the following string which i need to convert to integer or bigint.

$test=\"99999977706\";

I tried:

echo (int)$test;
         


        

Answer 1

MySQL isn't going to know the difference. Just feed the string into your query as though it is a number without first type casting it in PHP.

For example:

$SQL = "SELECT * FROM table WHERE id = $test";