How to check if an integer is within a range of numbers in PHP?

How can I check if a given number is within a range of numbers?

The expression:

 ($min <= $value) && ($value <= $max)

will be true if $value is between $min and $max, inclusively

See the PHP docs for more on comparison operators

You can use filter_var

filter_var(
    $yourInteger, 
    FILTER_VALIDATE_INT, 
    array(
        'options' => array(
            'min_range' => $min, 
            'max_range' => $max
        )
    )
);

This will also allow you to specify whether you want to allow octal and hex notation of integers. Note that the function is type-safe. 5.5 is not an integer but a float and will not validate.

Detailed tutorial about filtering data with PHP:

• https://phpro.org/tutorials/Filtering-Data-with-PHP.html

Might help:

if ( in_array(2, range(1,7)) ) {
    echo 'Number 2 is in range 1-7';
}

http://php.net/manual/en/function.range.php

You could whip up a little helper function to do this:

/**
 * Determines if $number is between $min and $max
 *
 * @param  integer  $number     The number to test
 * @param  integer  $min        The minimum value in the range
 * @param  integer  $max        The maximum value in the range
 * @param  boolean  $inclusive  Whether the range should be inclusive or not
 * @return boolean              Whether the number was in the range
 */
function in_range($number, $min, $max, $inclusive = FALSE)
{
    if (is_int($number) && is_int($min) && is_int($max))
    {
        return $inclusive
            ? ($number >= $min && $number <= $max)
            : ($number > $min && $number < $max) ;
    }

    return FALSE;
}

And you would use it like so:

var_dump(in_range(5, 0, 10));        // TRUE
var_dump(in_range(1, 0, 1));         // FALSE
var_dump(in_range(1, 0, 1, TRUE));   // TRUE
var_dump(in_range(11, 0, 10, TRUE)); // FALSE

// etc...

if (($num >= $lower_boundary) && ($num <= $upper_boundary)) {

You may want to adjust the comparison operators if you want the boundary values not to be valid.