A tip calculator PHP page.
Submitted by: Mateo Garcia
Time spent: 12 hours spent in total
The following required functionality is complete:
- User can enter a bill amount, choose a tip percentage, and submit the form to see the tip and total values.
- Tip percentage choices use a PHP loop to output three radio buttons.
- PHP code sets reasonable default values for the form.
- PHP code confirms the presence and correct format of submitted values.
- Page indicates any form errors which need to be fixed.
- Submitted form values are retained when errors or results are shown.
The following optional features are implemented:
- Add support for custom tip percentage
- Add support for splitting the tip and total
The following additional features are implemented:
- Improved code organization with custom PHP functions.
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
With the extensions:
GIF created with LiceCap.
- It took some digging to figure out how to dynamically updating the CSS to indicate a user input error.
- Determining when to call error-displaying code took some thinking, using PHP functions for reading POST variables like isset() and empty().
- Re-displaying user-inputted form values when the form was rerendered was a little tricky.
Copyright [2016] [Mateo Garcia]
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