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Posted by shortbackandsides.no on 05/14/07 19:15
On 14 May 2007 09:07:52 -0700, ZeldorBlat <zeldorblat@gmail.com>
wrote:
>On May 14, 12:01 pm, shortbackandsides...@spam.hairdresser.net wrote:
>> This snippet:
>> <?php
>> $price=round(111,2);
>> $tax=round($price*0.175,2);
>> $total=round($price*1.175,2);
>>
>> echo $price <br />";
>> echo "Tax at 17.5% $tax<br />";
>> echo "Total $total<br />";
>> ?>
>> gives the result:
>>
>> 111
>> Tax at 17.5% 19.42
>> Total 130.43
>>
>> Two questions.
>> Why the rounding difference?
>> and is there a standard function to force the 111 to display as 111.00
>> (given that price won't always be a whole number)?
>
>When I run your code on my system I get 19.43 and 130.43. It could be
>a platform or library issue -- I'm running PHP 5.1.6 on Fedora Core 6
>Linux.
>
>As for your other question, you can force the display of the zeros
>using either number_format() or money_format():
>
><http://www.php.net/number_format>
><http://www.php.net/money_format>
Thanks ZeldorBlat, it must be my PHP version that's the problem
(4.4.2) - money/number formats don't help either so it looks like time
for some fancy footwork with string manipulations.
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