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I have the following html form that has two text boxes "hours" and "wage". I need a PHP script that can compute the hours and any hours over 40 as time-and-a-half. Also the data must be validated to a decimal point value, even the hours. Can anyone help me?

<h2 style = "text-align:center">Enter Paycheck Data</h2>
<form name="paycheck" action="Paycheck.php" method="post">
<p>Hours Worked: <input type="text" name="hours" /></p>
<p>Hourly Wage: $<input type="text" name="wage" /></p>
<p><input type="reset" value="Clear Form" />&nbsp; 
     &nbsp;<input type="submit" name="Submit" 
     value="Send Form" /></p>
</form>

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dvcrdu

8/22/2022 - Mon

Michael701

9/7/2010

$hours = $_POST['hours'];
$wage = $_POST['wage'];
$overtime=0;
if ($hours > 40) 
  $overtime = $hours-40;

$pay_amount = ($hours * $wage) + ($overtime * $wage * 1.5);

echo "Pay amount:".$pay_amount;

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dvcrdu

9/7/2010

ASKER

Will this also validate the data from the text boxes as well?

Thank you!

Michael701

9/7/2010

not very much,

depends on how much checking you want

you could use something like this

if (!is_numeric($hours))
echo "Hours is not a number.";

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dvcrdu

9/7/2010