[RESOLVED] Compare prices (numbers with comma)

[Terminator]

Maybe a simple question, however I can't figure this one out!

I want to compare prices in an IF statement

Example

$price1 = 1.000,00 -> These prices come from a $POST field, but are in this format
$price2 = 900,50 -> These prices come from a $POST field, but are in this format

if ($price1 > $price2) {
 echo 'Price 1 is bigger';
}
else {
 echo 'Price 2 is bigger';
}

However above aint working and I think because of the . and the , in the price.
Anyone solutions for this ?

[coldwerturkey]

removes comma & period for comparison..

$coma = array(',','.');
if (str_replace($coma, '', $price1) > str_replace($coma, '', $price2)) { 
echo 'Price 1 is bigger'; 
} 
else { 
echo 'Price 2 is bigger'; 
} 

[bradgrafelman]

That'll work if the user always appends a ",00"; otherwise your script would say that 9,50 is greater than 900.

If you know that a period is always going to be used to group every third decimal location (e.g. the way a comma is used in American monetary notation), then you could try something like:

if(str_replace(array(',','.'),array('.',''),$price1) > str_replace(array(',','.'),array('.',''),$price2)) {
    // $price1 bigger
} elseif (str_replace(array(',','.'),array('.',''),$price1) < str_replace(array(',','.'),array('.',''),$price2)) {
    // $price 2 bigger
} else {
    // same price
}

[Terminator]

Thanks for your reply bradgrafelman & coldwerturkey.

Your reply did the trick (I already has the following workaround).

$price1= str_replace(".", "", $_POST['price1']);
$price2= str_replace(".", "", $_POST['price2']);

$price1= str_replace(",", ".", $price1);
$price2= str_replace(",", ".", $price2);

As for the ,00, yes those are placed behind the price