From c23352bedfdc4382a21c0d8e8794f22d2177d049 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: markjaquith <markjaquith@1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:11:18 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Introducing absint() for casting to an absolute integer. see
 #4762

git-svn-id: http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk@6222 1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd
---
 wp-includes/functions.php | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/wp-includes/functions.php b/wp-includes/functions.php
index b33905501..8b4a726b7 100644
--- a/wp-includes/functions.php
+++ b/wp-includes/functions.php
@@ -1432,4 +1432,13 @@ function require_wp_db()
 		require_once (ABSPATH . WPINC . '/wp-db.php');
 }
 
+/**
+ * Converts input to an absolute integer
+ * @param mixed $maybeint data you wish to have convered to an absolute integer
+ * @return int an absolute integer
+ */
+function absint($maybeint) {
+	return abs(intval($maybeint));
+}
+
 ?>