Typed Values from ini Files

Already introduced in PHP 5.6.1, the INI_SCANNER_TYPED constant can be used to enable the parse_ini_file() and parse_ini_string() functions to return typed values from ini files:

var_dump(
    parse_ini_string(
        'setting=1',
        false,
        INI_SCANNER_TYPED
    )
);

array(1) {
  ["setting"]=>
  int(1)
}

This functionality will now come in handy when passing values that are read from ini files to functions or methods that use scalar type declarations in their parameter list.