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Calculating Average (Mean) in PHP

I’m a bit of a beginner with PHP and am implementing a review aggregator system for a few products. I have created the input fields and am outputting the results from these fields using this code: I want to use PHP to calculate the average (mean) however the number I am using to calculate this is set to…

Incorrect PHP calculation

Can someone give me an explanation on why this is happening in PHP: It’s probably very simple but logically I do not see any explanation. Probably how PHP works in the background. I was trying to get the first two decimal positions of a number when I ran into this case. Result should be 29 naturally. If…

Subtract tax from a price with tax in OpenCart?

How do I subtract all taxes from a price with tax in OpenCart? In the example below I use the default “Taxable goods” tax setting from OpenCart, which is 20% VAT + $2,00 Eco-Tax. This returns an incorrect value of $14,64 because it calculates the tax on $number (20,80), which already is a price wi…

PHP find the days until a date

I have to find the number of days until a date in timestamp format (mysql db) My problem is that if date now is 2013-12-01 09:59:00 the days are 15 while datenow is 2013-12-01 10:01:00 the days are 14. How could I make a difference only of the days without the time? Answer Using the DateTime class: returns