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Converting words to numbers in PHP
I've been searching around for a bit, but haven't come across anything as of yet. Is it possible to do the following:
$columns = 'four';
$columns_int = PHP_FUNCTION($columns);
return $columns_int;
// returns int(4)
I believe I was playing around with Ruby and saw something like this, but thought this was also available in PHP. Thanks!
