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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 02/07/07 16:34
One wrote:
> hi group -
>
> I had this in a function - so I've just moved this out of the function
> for readabilty.
>
> Can someone please tell me WHY does this not return the result of :
> n1 times n2
>
> As I said - I took it out of the function just for readability :
> In my php file :
>
> $number_percent="25";
> echo "history['order_total'] is ".$history['order_total']."<br />";
> echo "number_percent is ".$number_percent."<br />";
> $total=(($history['order_total'])*$number_percent);
> echo "total is ".$total."<br />";
>
> And here is the output in the browser :
> history['order_total'] is $241.47
> number_percent is 25
> total is 0
>
> WHY ? Any advice or pointers would be much appreciated!
>
$number_percent is a string containing 25, not the numeric value 25.
When you use a string in a calculation it's numeric value is zero.
Try
$number_percent=25;
instead (and ensure that $history['order_total'] is also numeric).
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