Float type variable in blueprint?

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Hello,

how can I define a field in a blueprint to be a variable of type float? I want to be able to input numbers like 4.5 or 10.231 etc. and use them later in the template.

Thanks

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When you fetch data from a text file, like in $page->title(), the type is always an object; if you fetch the value of a field ($page->title()->value()), the type is always a string, no matter how you define your fields in the blueprint.

So the solution depends on what you want to achieve: do you want to validate the input in the panel? Then you probably need to create your own custom panel field. Otherwise, you can just use a standard text field and convert the value to float type in your template using

$float = floatval($page->field()->value());
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Great, worked perfectly! Thanks :slight_smile: