division not working -- must be obvious

[ywickham]

Hello all,

I have the following code below, that should return an integer:

<code>

$aspect_ratio = $imgprops[0] / $imgprops[1];

</code>

But var aspect_ratio comes back as 0. I need to maintain the decimal format of the value returned after dividing. I have checked imgprops[0] and [1] for valid values (which they do have). This has to be something obvious that I'm missing. Comments?

[brandonschnell]

i'd typecast one of the $imgprops variables to a float.

otherwise if the result is less than 0 and php is handling the vars as a decimal then the fraction will be dropped.

[Anon]

The easiest thing I have found is to use the bcmath functions.... But bcmath has to be compiled into you php and it is not by default.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.bcdiv.php