Re: Converting floats to ints with intval

From: Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 11:19:48 +0000
Subject: Re: Converting floats to ints with intval
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David Otton wrote:
On 6 May 2010 11:52, Paul Waring <paul@xk7.net> wrote:
If I was designing the system from scratch, that's what I'd do. Unfortunately this is an add-on to a legacy system where currency values are already stored as strings in the database (yes, not ideal I know, but you have to work with what you've got).
I don't know much about your situation, but it does sound like you need to fix the root problem. I'd use a decimal type, and lean on the database to do the maths.
As I said, unfortunately it's a legacy system, so I can't just change the database to use a different type (there are dozens of columns set up like this, with thousands of values already set). -- Paul Waring http://www.pwaring.com

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