I have let's say 0.00001004
or 0.00001
I am trying to choose and how decimal places to prune off and turn both of those so it returns 0.00001
both times.
I do not want it to round the number in anyway.
I've tried this but it is not giving me the desired results.
function decimalFix($number, $decimals) {
return floatval(bcdiv($number, 1, $decimals));
}
echo decimalFix(0.00001, 5); // returns "0"
Does anyone know what I can do? I can't have any rounding involved and I need it to return it as a float and not a string.
There's a function that does exactly this in the first comment on the PHP documentation for floor()
. I'll copy it here in case it disappears from there, but credits go to seppili_:
function floordec($zahl,$decimals=2){
return floor($zahl*pow(10,$decimals))/pow(10,$decimals);
}
Use it like:
$number = 0.00001004;
$rounded = floordec($number, 5);
var_dump($rounded); // float(0.00001)
Edit: There's a comment further down on that page by Leon Grdic that warns about float precision and offers this updated version:
function floordec($value,$decimals=2){
return floor($value*pow(10,$decimals)+0.5)/pow(10,$decimals);
}
Usage is the same.
I don't know why you're so committed to losing precision, but here's some math to make that particular mistake in the way you wish to make it.
$derp = 0.000016;
function derp_round($derp, $len) {
$mul = pow(10, $len);
return floor($derp * $mul)/$mul;
}
var_dump(
$derp,
number_format($derp, 5),
sprintf("%.5f", $derp),
sprintf("%.5f", round($derp, 5, PHP_ROUND_HALF_DOWN)),
sprintf("%.5f", derp_round($derp, 5))
);
Output:
float(1.6E-5)
string(7) "0.00002"
string(7) "0.00002"
string(7) "0.00002"
string(7) "0.00001"