Introducing absint() for casting to an absolute integer. see #4762

git-svn-id: http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk@6222 1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd
2007-10-10 22:11:18 +00:00 · 2007-10-10 22:11:18 +00:00 · c23352bedf
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commit c23352bedf
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--- a/wp-includes/functions.php
+++ b/wp-includes/functions.php
@ -1432,4 +1432,13 @@ function require_wp_db()
 		require_once (ABSPATH . WPINC . '/wp-db.php');
 }

+/**
+ * Converts input to an absolute integer
+ * @param mixed $maybeint data you wish to have convered to an absolute integer
+ * @return int an absolute integer
+ */
+function absint($maybeint) {
+	return abs(intval($maybeint));
+}
+
 ?>