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Posted by Jasper Bryant-Greene on 07/03/05 03:02
Satyam wrote:
> I would rather use native data types and functions. This is a good idea
> when you have to deal with the balance sheet of a corporation, where you
> have to handle huge numbers and still be precise up to the last cent. For
> most retail business, where the largest amount can still be expressed in
> cents within the range of a 32 bit integer, the bcmath package is like
> overkill.
Please don't top-post. You make a fair point though. Have you looked at
the "precision" configuration directive [1]?
In my applications I just let PHP store as many significant digits as it
likes during processing, and use number_format() whenever displaying to
limit it to 2 decimal places. That, coupled with storing them as
decimals with 2 decimal places in my MySQL databases, achieves
everything I need.
Jasper
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