Posted by Sean on 04/20/07 09:09

"Gleep" <Gleep@Gleep.com> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:42:27 -0400, "Art" <c_art@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
>>Can anyone help? I've got a text input box where the user occasionally
>>enters $ sign. For example they might enter $90,000 for a dollar amount.
>>The problem i'm having is that my php script is seeing this as a variable.
>>I'm not sure how to get around this problem.
>>
>>Art
>>
>
>
> what I do is filter out the $ , then insert just the number with a
> simple function
>
> function clear_currency($cca){
> $ccb = array("$","," );
> $ccc = str_replace($ccb, "",$cca );
> return $ccc;
> }
>
>
> so you post the form and clean the money var
>
> $money = clear_currency($_POST['moneyVar']);
>
> then you do what you like with the $money variable
>
>
> If you want the form to be 'sticky' to reshow the client the number in
> currency format,
> you do it this way
>
> <input type="text" name="moneyVar" value="<?= "\$".
> number_format($money); ?>" >
>
> that should do it.


"Gleep" <Gleep@Gleep.com> wrote :
> function clear_currency($cca){
> $ccb = array("$","," );
> $ccc = str_replace($ccb, "",$cca );
> return $ccc;
> }


Perhaps, you could use a slight variation on the theme...

function clear_currency($cca)
{
$ccc = $cca;
$ccc = str_replace("\$", "[USD] ",$ccc);
$ccc = str_replace("�", "[GBP] ",$ccc);
return $ccc;
}

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