I have user input in a script – $_POST['money'] and I want to confirm that it is infact a float of 2 decimal places.
What I was planning would be $money = (float)@$_POST['money'], in this case it would set $money to zero if a non number was entered. But the case may occur when the user enters something like 5.234, in this case I would also want money set at zero.
I don’t want to something tricky with explode or something like that, I was hoping there is an efficient way of doing this.
An integer is also fine, because it’s a valid amount.
I’ve chosen to use this code:
If you have a better solution please post.