The functions provided by this extension check whether a character or string falls into a certain character class according to the current locale (see also setlocale()).
When called with an integer argument these functions behave exactly like their C counterparts from ctype.h.
When called with a string argument they will check every character in the string and will only return TRUE if every character in the string matches the requested criteria. When called with an empty string the result will always be TRUE.
Passing anything else but a string or integer will return FALSE immediately.
Beginning with PHP 4.2.0 these functions are enabled by default. For older versions you have to configure and compile PHP with --enable-ctype. You can disable ctype support with --disable-ctype.
PHP 윈도우 버전에서는 이 확장 모듈에 대한 지원이 포함되어 있습니다. 이 함수들을 이용하기 위해서 추가로 확장 모듈을 읽어들일 필요가 없습니다.
참고: Builtin support for ctype is available with PHP 4.3.0.