[Resolved] Why of why?

[jazappi]

Why is this chopping the end of my number off?

lets say that

$quantity = 100,000
$stores = 5

if ($multistore == "Total"){
$new_quantity = $quantity;
} else {
$new_quantity = ($quantity / $stores);
}

After it does this my
$new_quantity = 20

Why is it cutting off the other three zeros?

[barand]

$quantity contains a non-numeric character and is, therefore, a string variable. php attempts to treat it as a number in the calculation as far as that ",".

Use

$quantity = 100000 ;

[jazappi]

Yeah I just figured that out. I did find a solution that keeps it looking like a english number though.

if ($multistore == "Total"){
$new_quantity = $quantity;
} else {
$new_quantity = number_format($quantity / $stores);
}

I added the number_format() function. Works Great!!!

http://www.php3.de/manual/en/function.number-format.php