i'm building this money management system and this is how i want it to work:first,users have to enter a value,that is the budget of their expenditure,say $10,000.then,the system must calculate the entered value based on a few categories,say,5 categories and each has its own percentage from the entered value,say category1 10% from the entered value,category2 5% from the entered value and so on.so,how can this be done?i'm using dmx,asp+ javascript,access2000

hi,

set the user inputed amount to a varible and then just work out the percentage

$total_expen = input_amount

then

$cat1 = $total_expen*0.1 ( for 10% )
$cat2 = $total_expen*0.05 ( for 5% )

etc

if you wanted the user to input percentage amounts set varibles for that and then divide that by a 100 to get your multiplier

$user_input = user_percent
$cat1_percent = $user_input/100

$cat1 = $total_expen*$cat1_percent

it will involve hand coding and i don't know what server model ( ASP/PHP ) your using.

hope this helps

Iain

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okay iain,thanx.that helps a bit but it would be better if you could give the code coz you see,i'm still new at this asp thing.for your info,i'm using asp.