Numeric value validation in php

Numeric value validation in php

This function return 1 if the argument passed to it is numeric only.


function onlynumber($value)  {
    $american = preg_match ("/^(-){0,1}([0-9]+)(,[0-9][0-9][0-9])*([.][0-9]){0,1}([0-9]*)$/" ,$value) == 1;
    $world = preg_match ("/^(-){0,1}([0-9]+)(.[0-9][0-9][0-9])*([,][0-9]){0,1}([0-9]*)$/" ,$value) == 1;
   return ($american or $world);
}