<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >fmod</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Mathematical Functions" HREF="ref.math.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="floor" HREF="function.floor.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="getrandmax" HREF="function.getrandmax.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.floor.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.getrandmax.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.fmod" ></A >fmod</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN44730" ></A ><P > (PHP 4 >= 4.2.0)</P >fmod -- Returns the floating point remainder (modulo) of the division of the arguments</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN44733" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >float <B CLASS="methodname" >fmod</B > ( float x, float y)<BR ></BR ><P > Returns the floating point remainder of dividing the dividend (<TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >x</I ></TT >) by the divisor (<TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >y</I ></TT >). The reminder (<TT CLASS="varname" >r</TT >) is defined as: x = i * y + r, for some integer <TT CLASS="varname" >i</TT >. If <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >y</I ></TT > is non-zero, <TT CLASS="varname" >r</TT > has the same sign as <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >x</I ></TT > and a magnitude less than the magnitude of <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >y</I ></TT >. </P ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN44753" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. Using <B CLASS="function" >fmod()</B ></B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" >$x = 5.7; $y = 1.3; $r = fmod($x, $y); // $r equals 0.5, because 4 * 1.3 + 0.5 = 5.7</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.floor.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.getrandmax.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >floor</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.math.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >getrandmax</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >