You really need to do some error checking on the denominator.
$num = 5;
$den = 0;

echo $den != 0 ? $num/$den : "0";

A number divided by zero isn't defined, so you have to circumvent the
situation by making sure it never happens.

        ~Chris                           /"\
                                         \ /     September 11, 2001
                                          X      We Are All New Yorkers
                                         / \     rm -rf /bin/laden

On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Martin Towell wrote:

> Is there a way to suppress division by zero errors?
>
> echo 5/0;  // this give a warning - obviously!!
>
> @echo 5/0;  // this gives a parse error
>
> echo @5/0;  // this still comes up with a warning
>
> unless I turn error_reporting off before and turn it back on afterwards, but
> I don't want to do that unless I REALLY have to
>
> Martin
>


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