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I am converting these functions http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html to PhP so they can be run server side.

I have the following line of code in Javascript (line 201)

alpha1 = (brng13 - brng12 + Math.PI) % (2*Math.PI) - Math.PI;

and so far in php I have got

 $alpha1 = ($brng13 - $brng12 + pi()) % (2*pi()) - pi();

However I do not know what that % stands for in Javascript and what its equivalent conversion into PHP would be.

Any insight would be appreciated.

Thanks

Answer 1

% is the same in PHP and JS, the Modulus operator, aka the remainder.

eg:

10 % 9 = 1
10 % 8 = 2
10 % 7 = 3
10 % 6 = 4
10 % 5 = 0
10 % 4 = 2
10 % 3 = 1
10 % 2 = 0
10 % 1 = 0

Answer 2

That's the modulus operator. PHP uses the same thing. (Come to think of it, I don't know of a language that doesn't.)

Of course, running these two code samples and seeing the runtime values would indicate pretty clearly if the operators are doing the same thing...

Answer 3

Javascript operators: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Operators/Arithmetic_Operators

PHP operators: http://php.net/manual/en/language.operators.arithmetic.php

The % operator is called the modulus operator, or the "remainder" operator. It is common to many programming languages and as far as I know performs the same operation in both Javascript and PHP. Either of the links above should lead you to a good definition of what it does.