assigning decimal values to an array?

wiztek2000

I am a definite newbie to PHP. I am trying to process a simple form to be printed as a fax sheet. Basically I have a form with several checkboxes, these are my items to be purchased, as well as individual dropdowns for each item to choose quantity. I am able to pass these items to my script via HTTP_POST_VARS . Once these items are passed, i check each with a for loop and print the individual item and quantitiys checked. I have an array with all the prices for each item. I am using decimal values in the array
such as:

$price = array ( 1.25, 3.35, 3 );

This is causing my script to not work. Do I have to declare these array variables in a certain way before assigning them in this way? is my syntax wrong? I'm lost at this point. Any Help would be greatly appreciated. Thank You in advance!😕

sfullman

I don't see anything wrong with your coding

<?php
$array = array(1.5, 3.5, 6.27485, 7);

foreach($array as $n=>$v){

echo $n . ":" . $v . "<br>";

}
?>

works fine for me.

Remember that there is a difference between this:
$arrayValue[1] = 2.57600;
echo $arrayValue[1];

and this:
$arrayValue[2] = '2.57600';
echo $arrayValue[2];

Try this code and see for yourself. Putting quotes treats it as text and it will display the zeros (nevertheless as long as it's a valid number you can still use it for math operations).

And to really throw stuff at you, my favorite number function:

echo number_format(2.576, 2, '', '.');
see what happens!

wiztek2000

Thank you for your help....I wont even begin to expain the lame syntax i forgot to add to make my script in-operable. Thanx again, and I'm sure you will be hearing from me again shortly!