Passing 'name' from forms. How?

[Northernladuk]

I have shopping cart where the basket is stored as a cookie. On my order page I use the following to get it assigned so that the next page can handle it.

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"><!--
document.secure.amount.value = (Math.round(altersecure(totalcost)));
//--></SCRIPT>

On the card processing page there is the following statement.

<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="amount" VALUE="$amount">

I take it at this point the value has been extracted from the cookie and passed to the processing page in the same way a form variable would.

So now I am trying to add this to a Mysql database using..

amount=request.form("amount") and doing an insert.

Problem is it just comes out 999.99

The mysql field is a decimal 4,2. If i put it to VARCHAR then the price comes out but withouth the decimal point.

Could anyone point out where I might be going wrong please.

THanks

[Northernladuk]

Ok, sorry about this, got it now. The altersecure call changes the value, dropped that and it's ok.

Sorry.