At 01:39 04.05.01 -0400, you wrote:
Ok Jennifer lets do some "basics" ;-)
>I've done some searching on the php site for more info about
>double and float etc, but I don't really understand anything I
>found. Can someone give me an explanation about the difference
>between decimal, float, double?
decimal is a straight number f.e 123456 the size/length of this number
belongs to the used hardware/compiler (normally 64bit???)
it could be "signed" so it could be -123456 or +123456
float is a number like 123,456 or 0,123456 size/signed see above
double is also a number like float but with the double size (normally 128
bit ??)
>Should I be using decimal as my column type in the MySQL database
>or should I be using a different column type?
If you want to store float numbers like prices or so you could use
float(M,D) where M ist the langth of all numbers
and D is the number of the fraction(is that word right) I mean what´s
behind the "," .
Look in the manual of mysql "datatypes" to get more information about
numbers and other interesting
datatypes.
HTH Oliver
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