How to determine the incoming request nature in laravel

Question

Lets say I have incoming url

/writer/$category

It's Route it written as

Route::get('/writer/{category}', ['uses' => 'WriterController@index']);

Now how to determine in Controller that whether the category is string or integer.

Answer 1

You can get the type with gettype function, like this:

dd(gettype($value));

at your controller