Avoid Warnings on F2S?? (divide by zero)

[Magic2K2]

I need to be able to divide by zero on my website, but I cannot do so right now without receiving the warning from F2S. I don't want to have to add checks throughout all my scripts to determine if it's dividing by zero beforehand and make the appropriate changes. Is there any way around this?

[bigperm]

Umm... you can't divide by zero.

[lucifer]

what's stopping you. dividing by zero is fun! :cool:

use java and catch those exceptions


I'm sure you can put in a tiny bit of variable checking (like you should anyway - you did check it was a number? :eek: )

[fatman]

Originally posted by Magic2K2
I need to be able to divide by zero on my website, but I cannot do so right now without receiving the warning from F2S.

Just curious - why would you want to divide by zero?

[Magic2K2]

It's a basketball site and I need to compute statistical averages for players. If a player has yet to play a game, his points per game is calculated by: points / gms = 0 / 0

I think I will use the JavaScript.

[lucifer]

Originally posted by Magic2K2
I think I will use the JavaScript.

you'd be better off with as server side script. So it'd work for all your visiters

just use a line like

$ppg = ($games==0) ? 0 : $points/$games;

[Magic2K2]

THANK YOU LUCIFER!!

Now, that code will work in PHP right?

[lucifer]

yip


or use

if ($games==0) {
$ppg=0;
} else {
$ppg= $points/$games;
}

if you want something easier to read

[LastActionHero]

Originally posted by lucifer

you'd be better off with as server side script. So it'd work for all your visiters

just use a line like

$ppg = ($games==0) ? 0 : $points/$games;

more refined

$ppg = (!$games) ? 0: $points/$games;

or

$ppg = ($games) ? $points/$games:0

;) :)

[niv]

if (!$games) $ppg = 0; :p