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Very short snippet: Currency format in PHP

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

PHP provides two convenient functions to format (and print) currencies money_format() and number_format() The first can be used together with setlocale() to set the formatting according to your country, for example:

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PHP:
  1. 1234.56 ; $ number = 1234.56;
  2. LC_MONETARY , 'en_US' ) ; setlocale (LC_MONETARY, 'en_US');
  3. ( '%i' , $number ) ; echo money_format ( '% i', $ number);
  4. / / USD 1,234.56

For us Europeans, and Italians, we can use:

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PHP:
  1. 1234.56 ; $ number = 1234.56;
  2. LC_MONETARY , 'it_IT' ) ; setlocale (LC_MONETARY, 'en_US');
  3. ( '%.2n' , $number ) ; echo money_format ( '% .2 n', $ number);
  4. / / U.S. $ 1234.56

However, in the simplest cases and if you bother EUR you can use:

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PHP:
  1. 1234.56 ; $ number = 1234.56;
  2. ( $number , 2 , ',' , '.' ) echo number_format ($ number, 2, ',', '.')
  3. / / 1234.56

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    February 11, 2009 Luke:

    Shit I'd never seen money_format for php! thanks for the tip!

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