note 15279 added to function.doubleval

If you read double or float val from DB, i.e. MySQL, u get a String first. now, if you want to convert it to double, doubleval is a good choice. But if u program in different languages, say german for example, and have set locale settings, like with setlocale ("LC_ALL", "de_DE"); you got a problem, becaus in some cases, the decimal point differs from MySQL format, so that doubleval() returns only the before-decimal-point value. to work around this, replace the '.' from MySQL with the local decimal point first. $locale_info = localeconv(); $preis = str_replace(".", $locale_info["decimal_point"], $preis); Gee, this one was a bastard to find out... Greetings. Björn Andersen http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.doubleval.php