I may be over-simplifying or not completely understanding fixed point decimals, but would number_format work?
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Take care, Floyd On Dec 17, 2009, at 9:21 AM, Raymond Irving wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a way to represent numeric values as fixed point decimals in PHP? If > not, why was this datatype not added? > > I think is very important to have fixed point decimals when working with > money values. This would make it much easy than having to use the BCMath > functions. > > If PHP had support for operator overloading then we could have easily > implemented this datatype as a class: > > $a = new FixPoint(34.56, 2); > $b = new FixPoint(34.55, 2); > > $c = $a-$b; > echo ($c); > > $c+= 3; > echo $c; -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
