How can PHP handle data types like long or bigint when passing values to APIs that expect specific data types?

When passing values to APIs that expect specific data types like long or bigint, PHP can handle this by explicitly casting the values to the desired data type using type casting. This ensures that the values being sent to the API are in the correct format and prevent any data type mismatches.

$value = 1234567890; // value to be sent to API
$longValue = (int)$value; // explicitly cast to long data type
// Now $longValue can be safely passed to the API