So here is my issue, We are trying to put pricing into our database but for some reason it converts 10.00 to 10 OR 10.50 to 10.5 it keeps it just chops off the trailing zeroes….
I checked the SQL statement and it says price=10.00 …. so Im really confused as to why/where it is stripping the .00
Ive checking all the way through where we enter the number to the final step at the INSERT or UPDATE and it keeps the trailing zeroes all the until the UPDATE or INSERT and then when you check the table …the zeroes are dropped
are you using a
decimal(N,2)type, or similar, for storing the data? if not, then this is normal behaviour. see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/numeric-types.htmlplease, don’t follow the advice in another answer and leave this to your presentation layer. do the job properly and store the exact decimal value. that way you avoid rounding issues.
ps there’s also the separate issue of how the value is managed in whatever language you are using. hopefully it uses a special type that includes appropriate formatting. if not, then you may want to worry about how you handle the value in your code (one possibility is to multiple by 100 and use an integer number of cents, but then you need to take care that maths rounds correctly – this is complicated, but it’s complicated for a reason; if you just stuff everything in doubles it will likely be simple, but have some strange bug for certain values…)