2 dumb questions

[Paul Furman]

First, I'm sure the following code is not using an efficient structure
for the nested if then else's but I can't recall the right way:

if ($item_qty 19)
{
$price = ($price * .925);
$qty_discount = '20 @ 7.5%';
} else
{
if ($item_qty 9)
{
$price = ($price * .95);
$qty_discount = '10 @ 5%';
} else
{
if ($item_qty 4)
{
$price = ($price * .975);
$qty_discount = '5 @ 2.5%';
}
}
}

Second question, if you see what I'm doing it's to discount e-commerce
sales based on the quanity ordered. It's easier to pull 50 of the same
item than 1 each of 50 different things. I'm not sure what's quite right
but lets say an order of 1 has no discount and an order of 100 is 50%
off. Surely there is a way of incrementally calculating the discount for
any quantity between 1 and 100 but I'm no math whiz.

hmmm... maybe for that one, since 50% * 2 is 100 then:

$item_qty = 100
$price = $100

$qty_discount = ($item_qty/2)
[50(%)]


$price = ($price - ($price * ($qty_discount / 100)))
[$50] $100 - $100 * 50%

Um, damn, I'm lost...

[Paul Furman]

Re: 2 dumb questions

Paul Furman wrote:

First, I'm sure the following code is not using an efficient structure
for the nested if then else's but I can't recall the right way:
>
if ($item_qty 19)
{
$price = ($price * .925);
$qty_discount = '20 @ 7.5%';
} else
{
if ($item_qty 9)
{
$price = ($price * .95);
$qty_discount = '10 @ 5%';
} else
{
if ($item_qty 4)
{
$price = ($price * .975);
$qty_discount = '5 @ 2.5%';
}
}
}
>
Second question, if you see what I'm doing it's to discount e-commerce
sales based on the quanity ordered. It's easier to pull 50 of the same
item than 1 each of 50 different things. I'm not sure what's quite right
but lets say an order of 1 has no discount and an order of 100 is 50%
off. Surely there is a way of incrementally calculating the discount for
any quantity between 1 and 100 but I'm no math whiz.

I solved this part so the first problem doesn't really matter though I
should know how to do that!

Basically I made this 'rate' number that says how much to increment per
unit purchased. Each additional unit gets a bit more discount.

$item_qty = 10;
$price = 100;

//$1-$100 discount up to 50%
$rate = (.5/100);

//subtract one 'rate' so a purchase of 1 unit is not discounted .005%
($qty_discount = (($item_qty*$ra te)/1)-$rate);
//set cap at 50%
if ($item_qty 99){$qty_discou nt = .5;}
//subtract discount from price
$price = ($price - ($price * ($qty_discount) ));

print " final: ".$price;


~returns $50 discounted price at 100 units~

[Kimmo Laine]

Re: 2 dumb questions

Paul Furman kirjoitti:

First, I'm sure the following code is not using an efficient structure
for the nested if then else's but I can't recall the right way:
>

With the help of our friend "else if" you get a really clean code:

if ($item_qty 19) {
$price = ($price * .925);
$qty_discount = '20 @ 7.5%';
} else if ($item_qty 9) {
$price = ($price * .95);
$qty_discount = '10 @ 5%';
} else if ($item_qty 4) {
$price = ($price * .975);
$qty_discount = '5 @ 2.5%';
}

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[Paul Furman]

Re: 2 dumb questions

Kimmo Laine wrote:

Paul Furman kirjoitti:
>

>First, I'm sure the following code is not using an efficient structure
>for the nested if then else's but I can't recall the right way:
>>

>
With the help of our friend "else if" you get a really clean code:
>
if ($item_qty 19) {
$price = ($price * .925);
$qty_discount = '20 @ 7.5%';
} else if ($item_qty 9) {
$price = ($price * .95);
$qty_discount = '10 @ 5%';
} else if ($item_qty 4) {
$price = ($price * .975);
$qty_discount = '5 @ 2.5%';
}

Thanks, that's better.
I should know this stuff...

[Paul Furman]

Re: 2 dumb questions

Paul Furman wrote:

>Second question, if you see what I'm doing it's to discount e-commerce
>sales based on the quanity ordered. It's easier to pull 50 of the same
>item than 1 each of 50 different things. I'm not sure what's quite
>right but lets say an order of 1 has no discount and an order of 100
>is 50% off. Surely there is a way of incrementally calculating the
>discount for any quantity between 1 and 100 but I'm no math whiz.

>
I solved this part..

This is a little better:

$price = $r["price"] / 100;
$full_price = $price / 100;//reserve for calculating discounts
$item_qty = $row["item_qty"];
//quantity discount
$limit = 50;//no further discount above this qty
$max_disc = .3;//max discount

$rate = ($max_disc/$limit);//discount per unit above 1

//subtract one 'rate' so a purchase of 1 unit is not discounted
($qty_discount = (($item_qty*$ra te)/1));
//set cap
if ($item_qty ($limit-1)){$qty_discou nt = $max_disc;}
//subtract qty discount from price
$price = ($price - ($price * ($qty_discount) ));

then:

//buyer discount
if ($discount != 0){//if any buyer discount
if (($discount-($qty_discount* 100))>0){//if not already discounted
above qty disc
//reduce buyer discount by amount of quantity disc
$adj_discount = ($discount-($qty_discount* 100));
$price = ($price - ($full_price * ($adj_discount / 100)));
} else {$adj_discount = 0;}
}