Note that PHP 5.3 didn't just introduce $mode, it rewrote the rounding implementation completely to eliminate many kinds of rounding errors common to rounding floating point values.
That's why round() gives you the correct result even when floor/ceil don't.
For example, floor(0.285 * 100 + 0.5) VS round(0.285*100 + 0.5). First one gives 28, second one gives 29.
More details here: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/rounding
