Formatting currancy and adding two variables together

Hi all,

I have a varibale $coursetotal

I have 2 other variables $course_cost and $no_places. Both of these variables contain data which is passed via a Form.

what I am trying to do is multiply $course_cost by $no_places and format the result as currency.

EXAMPLE.

If $course_cost contained £100.00 and $no_places contained 2 then $coursetotal shold output £200.00.

This is the code I am playing with.

<? echo money_format($fmt, $coursetotal) , = $_POST["course_cost"] * $_POST["no_places"];?>

The proble I am having is the code does not work. The error is:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected '='

Can anyone see where I have gone wrong.

Many thanks

echo money_format($fmt, $_POST["course_cost"] * $_POST["no_places"]);

Hi NogDog,

Thanks again for your reply, however I have a problem with your code.

It does not return data because

$coursetotal

is empty.

I need to get the result of

echo money_format($fmt, $_POST["course_cost"] * $_POST["no_places"]);

into

$coursetotal

and format it with "0.00" and echo that to the screen.

Thanks again for looking at this.

$coursetotal = $_POST["course_cost"] * $_POST["no_places"];

Hi,

I now have the following

<?php echo money_format($fmt, $coursetotal = $_POST["course_cost"] * $_POST["no_places"]);?>

but there is not ourput to the screen.

At the top of the script I am declaring

$coursetotal = 0;

both course_cost and no_places outpit data.

Any ideas

Many thanks

$coursetotal = $_POST["course_cost"] * $_POST["no_places"];
echo money_format($fmt, $coursetotal);