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Calculating Percentages

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December 27, 2018
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I have a mortgage site that I inherited. I can enter the down payment at a certain dollar value. The owner wants to add the ability to either enter down payment (currently I have in site) or enter the percentage of a down payment. Below is where I need to add the code and what was in there to start.

<tr>

<td valign="middle"><div align="right">Down Payment:</div></td>

</span></td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td valign="middle"><div align="right" class="style8">Or Enter</div></td>

</tr>

Need to know how to enter a percentage here. I am not a developer by any stretch of the imagination. Any help offered would be appreciated.

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Correct answer BKBK

That's fixed, now I get this when I put zero in for the dPayment. How to I set this to accept zero? Again, I apologize for my lack of coding skills.

</cfif>

RasonJ77 wrote
That's fixed, now I get this when I put zero in for the dPayment. How to I set this to accept zero? Again, I apologize for my lack of coding skills.
<cfif baseLoanAmount>
<cfset baseLoanAmount = (purchasePrice - dPayment)>
<cfelse>
<cfset baseLoanAmount = (purchasePrice * dpPercentage) / 100>
</cfif>

For consistency in the calculations, you could change the definition of dpPercentage, as follows

<cfset dpPercentage = (purchasePrice-dPayment)*100/purchasePrice>

The baseLoanAmount then follows from:

Hence, when dPayment is zero, baseLoanAmount is the purchasePrice.

Happy New Year!

BKBK

Community Expert

From what you've shown us, you could do the following in the action page of the form:

I have assumed dPayment and pPrice are input fields.

RasonJ77Author

Participating Frequently

Thank you, I will try that.

Jason Retherford

EddieLotter

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rasonj77 wrote
I am not a developer by any stretch of the imagination.

This is a problem. Even if you are shown how to add HTML to add a form field that will accept a percentage, what are you going to add to the ColdFusion code that processes the submitted form? There is more to this than adding a bit of HTML.

I strongly suggest you hire a programmer.

RasonJ77Author

Participating Frequently

I know. I told the owner this in the beginning, but he thought I could do this since I know enough to be dangerous when writing code.

I do have all the other cfm pages that pulls everything together; and I have been able to figure things out in the past, but this one has me stumped.

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