How to Get the Type of a Variable in PHP

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In this lesson we are going to see how to get the type of a variable in PHP, as you know when working with PHP sometimes you need to know the type of a variable.


Get the Type of a Variable in PHP using gettype() Function

gettype() is a function in PHP that returns the type of a variable value, it takes the variable to check as a param and returns the type.

                                                    
                                                                                                                
<?php

$data = (1, 2, 3);
echo gettype($data);
// output array

?>

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