Whilst working on an E-commerce website, written in PHP i came across and issue where i had a price stored in a table as a float.
I wanted to split the pounds, and pence into two variables to make it easier to work with, but then save the results back into 1 field. So this is what i did.
http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.explode.php#63110
//If you want to split a price (float) into pounds and pence.
//or dollors and cents etc etc.
$price = "6.20";
$split = explode(".", $price);
$pound = $split[0]; // piece1
$pence = $split[1]; // piece2
echo "£ $pound . $pencen";</span></code>
Enjoy 🙂