Question

I’m fairly new to the CakePHP game and need some insight on how to resolve a seemingly simple issue. I’ve inherited a few internal websites at my new job that utilize the framework and am struggling to tackle this issue with Google alone.

What I have is a view that loads a form and populates it with data already in the database. There are three fields that have this behavior and all have the same issue.

The fields are declared as such on the View:

echo $this->Form->input('hotel_costs');
echo $this->Form->input('misc_costs');

Within the database they’re declared as float DataTypes and therefore, when loaded to the browser will sometimes display as floats do: (15.7 becoming 15.699999999…)

Looking around it seems there are Helpers such as NumberHelper able to tackle my issue but I have no clue how to include the functionality with the form values. Am I looking in the wrong place entirely?

Thanks!

Answer 1

It has nothing to do with forcing the input type to text. Are you saying that you don’t want the float’s value in the field, but you want a rounded (to how many decimal places) number instead? It would have to apply across the board. Do you have a custom view or a baked one?
(I’d ask these as comments to your question, but my rep aint high enough.)