[SOLVED] 2 Questions

[jaymc]

Question 1

When outputting information to a textarea, the pount sign (£) is being displayed as a square

 

Ive tried changing the page charset to one supposed to resolve this but it hasnt work

 

I understand its due to the forum enctype

 

Im only using the textarea to display info, im not submitting it anywhere

 

 

Question 2

I want to turn this (4.6) into (4.60)

Basically, money format that tells you the exact pence with a leading zero if required

[Foser]

I'm guessing for question to.

 

<?php
$convert = 0.00;
$money = $_POST['money'];
conversion_output = $convert + $money;

?>

 

I think this would work but I'm not positive.

[jaymc]

I'm guessing for question to.

 

<?php
$convert = 0.00;
$money = $_POST['money'];
conversion_output = $convert + $money;

?>

 

I think this would work but I'm not positive.

Didnt work

[tibberous]

Whats the code for the £ that isn't working, because it works fine for me, even with the form enctype set. Are you sure your not using a weird font? You could try adding style="font-family: verdana" to the textarea and see if that fixes it.

[tibberous]

For the second part, try this:

 

$money = explode(".", $money);

$money[1] = substr($money[1], 0, 2);

$money = $money[0] . "." . (strlen($money[1]) < 1 ? "0" : "") . (strlen($money[1]) < 2 ? "0" : "");

[hvle]

About the pound sign, try to encode your html as unicode, it will work.

 

the money format, you can use classic sprintf

 

$formatedMoney = sprintf("%.2f", $money);

 

The %.2f tell php to output a float (f) and have a 2 decimal digit (2)

 

[jitesh]

A1

 

<textarea name="teeee">£This is pound sign</textarea>

 

A2

 

$val = 4.6;

printf("%.2f",$val);

[jaymc]

Cheers, sprintf worked fine