From 01d5c79feeda7ff41101c78a5d55b9b6cffacf6e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Steffen=20Schro=CC=88der?= <schteffens@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 18:56:07 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] boolean parse method

---
 application/core/Utils/Formatter.php | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/application/core/Utils/Formatter.php b/application/core/Utils/Formatter.php
index 2e28143e..313ae7b9 100644
--- a/application/core/Utils/Formatter.php
+++ b/application/core/Utils/Formatter.php
@@ -176,4 +176,18 @@ abstract class Formatter {
 		}
 		return 'OTH';
 	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Parse the given Value into a Bool
+	 *
+	 * @param mixed $value
+	 * @return bool
+	 */
+	public static function parseBoolean($value) {
+		if (is_string($value)) {
+			$value = strtolower($value);
+		}
+		$bool = filter_var($value, FILTER_VALIDATE_BOOLEAN);
+		return $bool;
+	}
 }