Have no clue about PHP yet

mindyviteri

I am new to PHP and have learned the little I know about html from trial and error. I need some help trying to get a PHP written. I have a form that has various entries to calculate Bookkeeper costs and the final calculations go into a section at the bottom. Can anyone get me started on how to get the calculations to input to the bottom?

I will give just one of the calculations that I need to do and if you can give me everything I would need if this were the only calculation it would be soooooo very appreciated!!!!!

(frm_monthly_salary)=(52)(frm_hourly_rate)(frm_work)/(12)

Thank you in advance!

NogDog

If your form is submitting via the "post" method, then the form values will be in the $POST array, or else they'll be in the $GET array if submitting via the "get" method. Assuming the post method, it might simply be:

$monthly_salary = 52 * (float) $_POST['hourly_rate'] * (float) $_POST['work'] / 12;

(Where 'hourly_rate' and 'work' are the names of the relevant form fields)

Then when you want to display it:

<p>The value is: <?php echo $frm_monthly_salary; ?></p>

wyattstorch42

If you're building a calculator that will just display information on the web page rather than storing it in a database or sending it somewhere, JavaScript is more appropriate of a solution.

<form action="javascript:void(0);" onsubmit="calculate('answer', 'form_hourly_rate', 'form_work'); return false;">
 Hourly rate: <input type="text" name="form_hourly_rate" id="form_hourly_rate" />
 Work: <input type="text" name="form_work" id="form_work" />
</form>
<div id="answer"></div>

<script type="text/javascript">
 function calculate(answerID, rateID, workID)
 {
  document.getElementById(answerID).innerHTML = "Calculated salary = "+(52*document.getElementById(rateID).value*document.getElementById(workID).value/12);
 }