Replace older-style PHP type conversion functions with type casts

[champsupertramp]

I'm using hybridauth as a library for a WordPress plugin. WordPress is now using direct type casting: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/11/20/miscellaneous-developer-focused-changes-in-wordpress-5-6/

In PHP 5 and later direct type casting is available, which is often many times more performant than their function predecessors.

Is this something that HybridAuth should be using?

Thanks

[ApacheEx]

Hello, thanks for recommendation. It makes sense for sure.

So, plan is to replace the following usages:

intval() → (int)
strval() → (string)
floatval() → (float)

[chrisgraham]

Micro optimizations really only make sense for code in the critical path (i.e. called a LOT during a single request), and I would very much doubt that hybridauth code is in the critical path.