Re: Fixe Point Decimal Data type

I may be over-simplifying or not completely understanding fixed point decimals, but would number_format work? Take care, Floyd On Dec 17, 2009, at 9:21 AM, Raymond Irving wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a way to represent numeric values as fixed point decimals in PHP? If not, why was this > datatype not added? > > I think is very important to have fixed point decimals when working with money values. This > would make it much easy than having to use the BCMath functions. > > If PHP had support for operator overloading then we could have easily implemented this datatype > as a class: > > $a = new FixPoint(34.56, 2); > $b = new FixPoint(34.55, 2); > > $c = $a-$b; > echo ($c); > > $c+= 3; > echo $c;