I am trying to figure out how much compound interest i will generate if i have 15% interest per year on an initial $10,000 investment. The script runs fine and generates the interest correctly, however, i am having a problem getting it to stop at $1,000,000. Any help would be appreciated.
thx.
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>Investment Calculator</title>
</head>
<body>
<div align="center"><br/>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="340">
<?php
$years = 50'; // just a placeholder so years can be established.
$percent = '.15';
$amount = '10000';
$goal = '1000000';
if ($percent > 1.0) $percent /= 100.0;
$p = 1;
for ($i = 0; $i < $years; $i++)
$result[$i] = $amount * ($p *= (1 + $percent));
print "<tr><td><b>Year</b></td><td><b>Amount</b></td></tr>\n";
foreach ($result as $year => $amt) print "<tr><td>".($year+1)."</td><td>$".number_format($amt,2)."</td/</tr>\n";
?>
</table>
</div>
</body>
</html>