在PHP中，您可以使用intval（string）或floatval（字符串）函数将字符串转换为数字。

实现这一目标的多种方式之一是：

$fileDownloadCount          =  (int) column_data_from_db;
$fileDownloadCount++;

第二行将值递增1。

您通常不需要这样做，因为在大多数情况下，PHP会强制您使用类型。对于确实要显式转换类型的情况，请将其强制转换为：

$num = "3.14";
$int = (int)$num;
$float = (float)$num;

如果你事先不知道你有一个浮点数还是一个整数，如果字符串可能包含特殊字符（如空格、欧元等），并且如果它可以包含多于1个点或逗号，您可以使用此功能：

// This function strip spaces and other characters from a string and return a number.
// It works for integer and float.
// It expect decimal delimiter to be either a '.' or ','
// Note: everything after an eventual 2nd decimal delimiter will be removed.
function stringToNumber($string) {
    // return 0 if the string contains no number at all or is not a string:
    if (!is_string($string) || !preg_match('/\d/', $string)) {
        return 0;
    } 

    // Replace all ',' with '.':
    $workingString = str_replace(',', '.', $string);

    // Keep only number and '.':
    $workingString = preg_replace("/[^0-9.]+/", "", $workingString);

    // Split the integer part and the decimal part,
    // (and eventually a third part if there are more 
    //     than 1 decimal delimiter in the string):
    $explodedString = explode('.', $workingString, 3);

    if ($explodedString[0] === '') {
        // No number was present before the first decimal delimiter, 
        // so we assume it was meant to be a 0:
        $explodedString[0] = '0';
    } 

    if (sizeof($explodedString) === 1) {
        // No decimal delimiter was present in the string,
        // create a string representing an integer:
        $workingString = $explodedString[0];
    } else {
        // A decimal delimiter was present,
        // create a string representing a float:
        $workingString = $explodedString[0] . '.' .  $explodedString[1];
    }

    // Create a number from this now non-ambiguous string:
    $number = $workingString * 1;

    return $number;
}

有一种方法：

$value = json_decode(json_encode($value, JSON_NUMERIC_CHECK|JSON_PRESERVE_ZERO_FRACTION|JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES), true);

使用is_*不起作用，因为变量是：string。

使用json_encode（）和json_edecode（）的组合将其转换为“真”形式。如果它是真字符串，则输出错误。

$num = "Me";
$int = (int)$num;
$float = (float)$num;

var_dump($num, $int, $float);

将输出：string（2）“Me”int（0）float（0）

function convert_to_number($number) {
    return is_numeric($number) ? ($number + 0) : FALSE;
}