[PHP] Re: Currency stored as cents

2005-07-02 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Satyam wrote: I would rather use native data types and functions. This is a good idea when you have to deal with the balance sheet of a corporation, where you have to handle huge numbers and still be precise up to the last cent. For most retail business, where the largest amount can still be

[PHP] Re: Currency stored as cents

2005-07-02 Thread Satyam
I would rather use native data types and functions. This is a good idea when you have to deal with the balance sheet of a corporation, where you have to handle huge numbers and still be precise up to the last cent. For most retail business, where the largest amount can still be expressed in c

[PHP] Re: Currency stored as cents

2005-07-02 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Satyam wrote: Now, am I missing something in all this? Please comment. Thanks Satyam Just use the Arbitrary Precision Mathematics functions in PHP, set to a precision of 2 decimal places. There's bcmath[1] and GMP[2]. Jasper [1] http://www.php.net/bc [2] http://www.php.net/gmp -- PHP Ge