I'm in Chapter 4 page 84.
The topic is "Incrementing the value of a variable". The instructions are to change $taxrate = $taxrate + 1; to $taxrate = $taxrate++;
I am not getting the right results and I can't figure out why. The code was working before I made this change, and this is the only thing I changed. I've pasted that part of the code with the results below.
I'm using Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2010 Express to write my code, and my browser is IE8: I also tried it in Firefox which was even stranger as you will see below the IE8 results.
Below them all I have pasted the entire code
Thank you for your help
Here is the original (working) code:
//Determine the tax rate
$taxrate = $tax/100;
$taxrate = $taxrate +1;
You have selected to purchase:
10 widget(s) at
$100 price each plus a
$5.00 shipping cost and a
10 % tax rate.
After your $0 discount, the total cost is $1,105.50
Divided over 10 monthly payments, that would be $110.55 each
-------------------------------------------- NOW THE CHANGE TO $taxrate++;
//Determine the tax rate
$taxrate = $tax/100;
$taxrate = $taxrate ++;
You have selected to purchase:
10 widget(s) at
$100 price each plus a
$5.00 shipping cost and a
10 % tax rate.
After your $0 discount, the total cost is $100.50
Divided over 10 monthly payments, that would be $10.05 each
--------------------------------------------
I decided to try it in Firefox and this was my result:
You have selected to purchase:
10 widget(s) at
$10 price each plus a
$5.00 shipping cost and a
10 % tax rate.
After your $10 discount, the total cost is $9.50
Divided over 10 monthly payments, that would be $0.95 each
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR...nsitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Product Cost Calculator</title>
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
.number {font-weight:bold;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<?php //Script 4.2 - handle_calc.php
/* This script takes values from calculator.html and performs total cost and monthly payment calculations. */
// Address error handling, if you want.
ini_set ('display_errors', 1);
// Get the values from the $_POST array:
$price = $_POST['price'];
$quantity = $_POST['quantity'];
$discount = $_POST['discount'];
$tax = $_POST['tax'];
$shipping = $_POST['shipping'];
$payments = $_POST['payments'];
// Calculate the total:
$total = $price * $quantity;
$total = $total + $shipping;
$total = $total - $discount;
//Determine the tax rate
$taxrate = $tax/100;
$taxrate = $taxrate ++;
//Factor in the tax rate:
$total = $total * $taxrate;
// Calculate the monthly payments:
$monthly =$total / $payments;
//Apply number formatting
$total = number_format ($total, 2);
$monthly = number_format ($monthly, 2);
// Print the results
print "<div><p> You have selected to purchase: <br />
<span class=\"number\">$quantity</span> widget(s) at <br />
$<span class=\"number\">$price </span> price each plus a <br />
$<span class=\"number\">$shipping</span> shipping cost and a<br />
<span class=\"number\">$tax</span> % tax rate. <br />
After your $<span class=\"number\">$discount</span> discount, the total cost is
$<span class=\"number\">$total</span><br />
Divided over <span class=\"number\">$payments</span> monthly payments, that would be $<span class=\"number\">$monthly</span> each
</p>
</div>";
?>
</body>
</html>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR...nsitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Product Cost Calculator</title>
</head>
<body><!-- Script 4.1 - calculator.html -->
<!--CREATE FORM -->
<div><p>Fill out this form to calculate the total cost:</p>
<form action="handle_calc.php" method="post">
<p>Price: <input type="text" name="price" size="5"</p>
<p>Quantity: <input type="text" name="quantity" size="5"</p>
<p>Discount: <input type="text" name="discount" size="5"</p>
<p>Tax: <input type="text" name="tax" size="3" /> (%)</p>
<!-- SELECT SHIPPING -->
<p>Shipping method: <select name="shipping">
<option value="5.00">Slow and steady</option>
<option value="8.95">Put a move on it!</option>
<option value="19.36">I NEED IT YESTERDAY!</option>
</select></p>
<!--SELECT PAYMENT ARRANGEMENTS -->
<p>Number of payments to make:<input type="text" name="payments" size="3" />
</p>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Calculate!" />
</form>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Incrementing Not Working
Started by
neophyte
, May 31 2011 2:42 PM
4 replies to this topic
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neophyte
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Posted 31 May 2011 - 3:02 PM
I hate when I find the answer two seconds after I finally break down and ask. I'd struggled with this for a couple of hours and after I posted to this forum I decided to move to the next section of the chapter. That's when I remembered about the scripts. I pulled up the relevent script and almost immediately saw what I'd done wrong. 
Thanks anyway!!
Thanks anyway!!
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Posted 1 June 2011 - 7:20 AM
Happens to us all. Just to confirm, was the problem the space before the ++ or that the code should actually just be:
$taxrate++;
without assignment?
$taxrate++;
without assignment?
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Posted 1 June 2011 - 5:49 PM
When I saw that it should just be taxrate++; I changed it to that and it worked. However I just pulled up the file and saw that I'd typed in as taxrate ++; so I'm glad you asked about the space because I hadn't noticed it and I now I can correct that too.
Larry, since you replied to this, I'd just like to thank you for this book! I tried an online "Introduction to PHP" class offered by a local technical college, and spent nearly all of my time completely confused by the teacher's instructions, explanations, and answers. Thank you for breaking this down into understandable bite-sized pieces that I can grasp even though the only 'programming' experience I've had was back in the dark ages of DOS and dBase.
I really can't thank you enough.
Larry, since you replied to this, I'd just like to thank you for this book! I tried an online "Introduction to PHP" class offered by a local technical college, and spent nearly all of my time completely confused by the teacher's instructions, explanations, and answers. Thank you for breaking this down into understandable bite-sized pieces that I can grasp even though the only 'programming' experience I've had was back in the dark ages of DOS and dBase.
I really can't thank you enough.
Happens to us all. Just to confirm, was the problem the space before the ++ or that the code should actually just be:
$taxrate++;
without assignment?
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Posted 1 June 2011 - 9:41 PM
Thank you very much for the nice words. I'm glad you like what I do!
