Hi I am trying to divide two integers ex: 12/13 but I always get a whole integer 1 not a decimal number.
I tried type casting the values to float before hand with no success.
Basically all I want is a decimal result like: 0.923...
$x = 12;
$y = 13;
echo $value = $x / $y; //Would like to see 0.923 not 1
Under normal circumstances your code should return the floating value 0.923076
...
The reason you get a rounded integer might be because you have your ini setting
for "precision"
set to 0
, to fix this either edit your php.ini
or use ini_set("precision", 3);
in your code before the calculation.
Another way to workaround this is to use BCmath:
echo $value=bcdiv($a, $b, 3);
And yet another way without using any extension is to use a little math trick by multiplying the value you want to divide by 1000
to get 3 decimals
.
This way you'll divide 12000
by 13
and the whole part will be 923
, then since you multiplied by 1e3 insert a comma/dot before the last most 3 places.
function divideFloat($a, $b, $precision=3) {
$a*=pow(10, $precision);
$result=(int)($a / $b);
if (strlen($result)==$precision) return '0.' . $result;
else return preg_replace('/(\d{' . $precision . '})$/', '.\1', $result);
}
echo divideFloat($a, $b); // 0.923
echo $value = $x / (float) $y;
if you cast the variable $y
as float the interpreter use the floating point division instead of integer division.
because it's default asumption to use integer division on two integer variables.
It was different if you used $y = 13.0
(a float variable as denominator):
The results is always a float number
All other answers are NOT RIGHT, because PHP's division will always return float values, as is stated clearly in official manual PHP: Arithmetic Operators , except for cases when two operands are both integers which can be evenly divided.
In fact, the question is wrong: the code should produce 0.923..., as was expected from the questioner.
Sarcastically, the voted-down answer (came from @BulletProof47) is the only other one which is just NOT WRONG (but also meaningless). Who knows what he was thinking, but I bet everybody knows why it was voted down :D
In case who is interested, the underlying function which does division in php is div_function
, located in Zend/zend_operators.c
, shown below:
ZEND_API int div_function(zval *result, zval *op1, zval *op2 TSRMLS_DC) /* {{{ */
{
zval op1_copy, op2_copy;
int converted = 0;
while (1) {
switch (TYPE_PAIR(Z_TYPE_P(op1), Z_TYPE_P(op2))) {
case TYPE_PAIR(IS_LONG, IS_LONG):
if (Z_LVAL_P(op2) == 0) {
zend_error(E_WARNING, "Division by zero");
ZVAL_BOOL(result, 0);
return FAILURE; /* division by zero */
} else if (Z_LVAL_P(op2) == -1 && Z_LVAL_P(op1) == LONG_MIN) {
/* Prevent overflow error/crash */
ZVAL_DOUBLE(result, (double) LONG_MIN / -1);
return SUCCESS;
}
if (Z_LVAL_P(op1) % Z_LVAL_P(op2) == 0) { /* integer */
ZVAL_LONG(result, Z_LVAL_P(op1) / Z_LVAL_P(op2));
} else {
ZVAL_DOUBLE(result, ((double) Z_LVAL_P(op1)) / Z_LVAL_P(op2));
}
return SUCCESS;
...
Just use $value = (float)($x/$y); //Result will in float.
Cheers!