variant_cast

(PHP 5)

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

Description

variant variant_cast ( variant variant, int type )

This function makes a copy of variant and then performs a variant cast operation to force the copy to have the type given by type. type should be one of the VT_XXX constants.

This function wraps VariantChangeType() in the COM library; consult MSDN for more information.