variant_set_type

(PHP 5, PHP 7)

variant_set_type — Convert a variant into another type "in-place"

说明

void variant_set_type ( variant $variant , int $type )

This function is similar to variant_cast() except that the variant is modified "in-place"; no new variant is created. The parameters for this function have identical meaning to those of variant_cast().

参数

variant: The variant.
type

返回值

没有返回值。

参见

variant_cast() - Convert a variant into a new variant object of another type

User Contributed Notes

martin at itmission dot com 22-May-2009 07:55


In my application I was using ADODB to retrieve data from Microsoft Access.  During queries, fields defined as "Date/Time" in Access were being returned to PHP as instances of the Variant class.



For some reason, the variant_date_to_timestamp function returned incorrect timestamps.  As a workaround, I used variant_set_type($variant, VT_BSTR) to get a string representation of the date.  This can be used for most variant types PHP doesn't handle.