I need to format a floating point number in PHP so it can be inserted into a column in a table which is of type decimal(6,5).
So,
20 would get formatter to 20.00000
20.5 would get formatted to 20.50000
How to do it in PHP?
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I need to format a floating point number in PHP so it can be inserted into a column in a table which is of type decimal(6,5).
So,
20 would get formatter to 20.00000
20.5 would get formatted to 20.50000
How to do it in PHP?
To avoid the float inherent precision error,
cast first to decimal(9,2), then to decimal(6,5).