Function to check money value

[Stefan Richter]

Hi,

I am looking for a good function to check if a entered value is
a money value - meaning it's a decimal with no more then 2 digits after the point.

Thanks,

Stefan

[Geoff Berrow]

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contained the following:

I am looking for a good function to check if a entered value is
a money value - meaning it's a decimal with no more then 2 digits after the point.

Check user notes.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.eregi.php

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[Andy Hassall]

On 14 Feb 2005 05:13:03 -0800, Do****@gmx.de (Stefan Richter) wrote:

I am looking for a good function to check if a entered value is
a money value - meaning it's a decimal with no more then 2 digits after the point.

Something along the lines of:

preg_match('/^\d+(?:\.\d\d?)$/', $money_value)

Do you want to allow it to be preceded by a currency symbol? How about commas
for thousands separators, or allowing mainland-European-style separators
(points for thousand separators, comma for decimal e.g. 1.000,99)?

The above would be OK if all you want is "digits followed optionally by [dot
plus one or two digits]".

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[Stefan Richter]

I assume you are talking about this function:

function check_price($price)
{
$data=split('[.]',$price);

if ( count($data) != 2 )
return "false";

if ( ctype_digit($data[0]) && ctype_digit($data[1]) && $data[0][0]
!= '0')
return "true";
else
return "false";
}

However, there are two problems:
1. I can't find this ctype_digit function in my php reference, so I
assume it doesn't exist.

2. How can I switch from german to english number format???

I thought number_format($money,2,".",",") would do it,
however, it seems that this chops of existing values after the comma /
dot.

???

Thanks,

Stefan

[Stefan Richter]

Hi, I want to go create a table with a textfield where the user can
enter an amount for a certain dynamically created article coming from
the database.

Later, I want to calculate the whole price and so on.
It works nicely to create my multi dimensional array,
however, it does not work to save the values coming from the form to
calculate the price.
What's wrong???

<form name="shop" method="post" action="index.php">
$articleTable = array();

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$articleNr= $row["articleNr"];
$name= $row["name"];
$picName= $row["picName"];
$price = $row["price"];
$amount="";
$articleRow = array(
"articleNr" => $articleNr,
"name" => $name,
"picName" => $bildName,
"price " => $price ,
"amount" => $amount
);

array_push($articleTable , $articleRow );

}

foreach($articleTable as $article) {
?>
<input type="text" name="article[amount]" size="2" maxlength="2"
value="<? $article[amount] ?>"></td>
}

<?
}
?>
</form>

[Stefan Richter]

Thanks for your reply Andy.
-------

Well, first of all it needs to be able to be saved my mysql.
Can mysql understand thousands seperators?
If not, I would need a function to take out these seperators.

About . vs ,:

Well, this function is for Germany,
so I would need it the other way round,
but the best was if it would except both of course.
And no, I don't need a currency symbol, as I am always using euros so
I am not saving that in the database.
Thanks,

Stefan

[Geoff Berrow]

I noticed that Message-ID:
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contained the following:

Later, I want to calculate the whole price and so on.
It works nicely to create my multi dimensional array,
however, it does not work to save the values coming from the form to
calculate the price.
What's wrong???

There is no code there which does that. And if you already have an
array called $row why change it to an array called $articleRow It seems
identical apart from the variable $bildName which appears from nowhere.

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[Stefan Richter]

Geoff Berrow <bl******@ckdog.co.uk> wrote in message news:<cb********************************@4ax.com>. ..

I noticed that Message-ID:
<e2**************************@posting.google.com > from Stefan Richter
contained the following:

Later, I want to calculate the whole price and so on.
It works nicely to create my multi dimensional array,
however, it does not work to save the values coming from the form to
calculate the price.
What's wrong???

There is no code there which does that. And if you already have an
array called $row why change it to an array called $articleRow It seems
identical apart from the variable $bildName which appears from nowhere.

Sorry, I forgot to change that variable name to english - it's
picname,
and yes basically they are identically -

Okay, that was stupid -

Anyway - All I want is an array that contains the data coming from the
databse
AND also the amount of each article coming from the form the user
fills.

I was able to make an array containing the amount of each article,
and I got the array coming from the database -
Now what I just don't like is that I don't have any evidence that
row[0] of the first array is identically to row[0] to my amount array
-
If I had all in one array, I could easily go through the array and
work with it - no matter if it was sorted or not.

Stefan