is_string in PHP

is_string — Find whether the type of a variable is string

Syntax: 
bool is_string ( mixed $var )

Finds whether the type given variable is string.
Parameters: 

var

    The variable being evaluated.

Return Values:

Returns TRUE if var is of type string, FALSE otherwise.
Examples:

Example #1 is_string() example
<?php
$values = array(false, true, null, 'abc', '23', 23, '23.5', 23.5, '', ' ', '0', 0);
foreach ($values as $value) {
    echo "is_string(";
    var_export($value);
    echo ") = ";
    echo var_dump(is_string($value));
}
?>

The above example will output:

is_string(false) = bool(false)
is_string(true) = bool(false)
is_string(NULL) = bool(false)
is_string('abc') = bool(true)
is_string('23') = bool(true)
is_string(23) = bool(false)
is_string('23.5') = bool(true)
is_string(23.5) = bool(false)
is_string('') = bool(true)
is_string(' ') = bool(true)
is_string('0') = bool(true)
is_string(0) = bool(false)