Casting the return value

 
class TextInput {

    public function __toString() {
        return (string) $this->label;
    }
}

1.	Casting a variable
2.	Change the data type
3.	Changing Type by Casting
4.	Converting to in parentheses before our variable name
5.	Maintaining the integrity of the data and outputting the end result.
6.	Force to change the data type by adding (int), (integer), (float), (double), or (real) in front of the variable
7.	When the first expression is a string, the type of the variable will depend on the second expression.
8.	convert to float
9.	Typecasting
10.	Casting a Variable
11.	Type conversion: Approach 2
12.	Type conversion: Approach 1
13.	Type conversion: approach 3
14.	Type conversions
15.	Convert String to Date

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