README

Installation

$ composer require backendtea/safe-bc-math

Why this package

Casting a float to a string does not always do what you think it does. Some locales may give unexpected results, and give a malformed string, or the number is cast to a scientific notationm for example: 1.0E-11. Which bcmath cant handle. Even if you do not manually cast it to a string, the bc math functions expect strings, and will cast it themselves.

This package will throw an exception telling you what error it encountered, instead of giving a warning bcmath function argument is not well-formed and returning a wrong error.

Usage

Replace any usage of bc math functions with the Backendtea\bc.. version.

e.g.

- bcadd($a, $b);
+ \BackEndTea\bcadd($a, $b);

Or even better, import the funtion:

+ use function BackEndTea\bcadd;

bcadd($a, $b);