Simple math with decimals in PHP

Question

This is killing me! I\'ve never had so much trouble and I can\'t figure out what I\'m doing wrong here.

If I have a number, say 2.32, and I want to do math with it it wo

Answer 1

You need to assign $income in the following manner to get rid of the underlying SimpleXMLElement:

$income = (float) $commission;

Example of what happens when you don't:

$x = simplexml_load_string("2.4");
echo $x * 100; // output:  200