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I am trying to build a simple program to illustrate drawdown in a pension scenario.

I have a syntax error that I cant find however.

Any help appreciated.

<?php
if(!$_POST){
?>
<table border=1> 
<form action="" method="post"> 
<tr> <td> Initial Capital: <td> <input type="text" name="amount"> <td><br>
<td> Growth Rate pa: (in %) <td> <input type="text" name="rate"> 
<td> Period in Yrs: <td> <input type="text" name="years" maxlength="4"> 
<td> Yearly Drawdown: <td> <input type="text" name="drawdown" maxlength="5"> 
<td> <input type="submit"> 
</form>
</table>

<?php
}else{
if($_POST){

$amount = $_POST['amount'];
$rate = $_POST['rate'];
$time    = $_POST['time'];
$number = $_POST['years'];
$drawdown = $_POST['drawdown'];

$amount2 = (float)$amount;
$rate2   = (float)$rate;
$drawdown2 =(float)$drawdown;
$year = 1

?>
<table border=1>
<tr><td> Initial Capital: <?php echo "$start" ?></td>
<td>Interest: <?php echo "$rate" ?>%</td>
</table>
<table border=1>
<tr>
<th>Years</th>
<th>Amount</th>
<th>Remaining Capital</th>
</tr>

<?php
while ($year <= $number) {
//calculate interest and deduct drawdown
$Solve_Interest = ($amount2 * $rate2 * $time) / 100;
  
$Total_Amount = ($amount2 + $Solve_Interest);

$Remaining_Capital = ($Total_Amount - $drawdown2);

echo "<tr><td>";
echo $year;
echo "</td><td>";

echo "<tr><td>";
echo $Solved_Interest;
echo "</td><td>";

echo "<tr><td>";
echo $Remaining_Capital;
echo "</td><td>";
echo "</tr>";

$year = $year + 1;
$amount2 = $Remaining_Capital;
}
	}
	?>


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Problem is here

if($_POST){  

 

Delete it.

 

Your form tables are bad as well. All your tables are missing closing tags No closiing tr or td's, or table. And you shouldnt be using a tables for your forms. Use CSS. And you should probably switch around your if else post to if($_POST) instead of the negative if not post.

 

Also, there is no need to create all those useless variables.

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