Re: Formatting Percents
| From: | David Robley | Date: | Fri, 17 Aug 2001 05:05:08 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Formatting Percents | ||
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On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 14:19, David Smith wrote:
> What I have in code.
>
> If the retail price is $139.95 and I use the following:
>
> $aprice = $hotbuys["price"] * .15; // Determine Discount
> $bprice = $hotbuys["price"] - $aprice; // Subtract Discount
>
> $bprice = 118.9575
>
> How can I format that to just 118.96?
$discount = .15;
$discount_price = number_format($hotbuys["price"]*(1-$discount), 2)
should do something like what you want.
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