Question

I am parseing a page and saving the retrived data in mysql db. Everything is ok except the price of the product. After extracting price,when i use print_r($price) i get the actual value but while saving the same $price in my database, i get only a part of it.

for example:-
while using print_r($something); //output is 2 458

while saving in database $something, the saved value is only 458.

I think that the problem is due to space between 2 and 4. I can understand that this is a very simple question for most of you, but right now i am not able to solve it.
Thanks a lot ahead for support!

Answer 1

MySQL is pretty permissive about what data you can insert into its fields. In this case you are trying to insert a string that contains two numbers into a numeric field, it’s doing its best to extract a single number from that data but is getting it wrong.

All you need to do is remove the space(s) before you insert:

$something = str_replace(' ', '', $something);

or using a regular expression you could remove any non-numeric character:

$something = preg_replace("'[^0-9]'", '', $something);