See love the morning and coffee.
The code is doing what it is suppose to do. See we code it as a string and and it passes through the typecast function which adds the slash because going into mysql you need that. Now we issue an ereg_replace line that removes everything except the actual number. So I dont know why you think setting it to an INT does not work the end result is we pass an integer to the database. You input $199.50
It passes through the code it is returned as 19950. That inturn is used in the query and you end up with 199.50 stored in the database since its a 2point floating field.
The problem is when you use a non interger in that line what is left after the regex is \. You cant enter a string value into a float field.
You can use a striipslash sure and the variable comes back empty thats fine. I choose this in uploadproduct.php because it lets me backwards remember why I just posted this. You will see there are no stripslash or addslash lines thrown throughout our code as there is a function which properly does this.
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