[SOLVED] Input Box Help

[kevinfwb]

I have a text box that is used to display a royalty rate.  It the MySQL database it stores 5% as 0.05 (as it should be).  However, they prefer to see it as %5.00 in the forms that they access.

 

The line of code for the textBox is:

 

echo "    <td><input type=\"text\" name=\"adRate\" value=\"{$row['adRate']}\" /></td>\n";

 

I can't seem to get it to display the ad rate * 100 in the text box without using a second line of code to multiply the rate by 100 1st and then saving it to a variable and displaying the 2nd variable in the text box. 

 

Is arithmetic even possible in the "value" field?

 

 

Thanks for your help

 

-Kevin

[p2grace]

Try this:

 

echo "    <td><input type=\"text\" name=\"adRate\" value=\"".$row['adRate'] * 100."\" /></td>\n";

[kevinfwb]

Error still:

 

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING, expecting ',' or ';'

 

Thanks

[p2grace]

Sorry, this will fix it:

 

echo "    <td><input type=\"text\" name=\"adRate\" value=\"".($row['adRate'] * 100)."\" /></td>\n";

[kevinfwb]

Indeed it did.

 

Thanks a lot for you help

 

-Kevin