I suspect you could address security concerns by limiting the input to
valid characters in your arithmetic needs:
if (preg_match('|^[0-9.+/*-]+$|', $expression)){
eval("$foo = $expression");
return $foo;
}
On Fri, December 7, 2007 8:51 am, Nathan Rixham wrote:
> In-Built PHP Functions for parsing of basic arithmetic and if possible
> fraction to decimal and decimal to fraction
>
> $arithmetic_string = "3*5";
> echo arith($arithmetic_string); // returns float 15
>
> $arithmetic_string = "1/2";
> echo arith($arithmetic_string); // returns float 0.5
>
> $fraction_string = "1/4";
> echo fracdec($fraction_string); // returns float 0.25
>
> $dec_string = "0.5";
> echo decfrac($dec_string); // returns string "1/4"
>
> I've used php for years, came accross the need for this today and was
> suprised such a basic command wasn't there.. currently the only way I
> can see to do it would be to eval.. which isn't the most secure method
> for such a basic need.
>
> Regards
>
> Nathan
>
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