Formatiing Money in PHP

[Anon]

I am having trouble getting a variable to hold the formatting I want. I have two variables that are being sent from a previous page:

$BasePrice = 60.00
$Base = 1

I then multiple them together to get BaseTotal.

$BaseTotal = $BasePrice * $Base

When I echo $BaseTotal now I get 60 instead of 60.00. Why is this?

I did a gettype() on $BaseTotal and it returns 'double' and I tried setting Base to 1.0 instead of 1, and I still end up with BaseTotal = 60. What am i missing?

What is the recommened way to store money in PHP?

Thanks in advance!

[Anon]

Hi,

The calculations will be fine, then you have to display it. When you display your money amount use the sprintf() function to format the value. The manual has an example that does this. Also you can a little function to return the formatted value so you don't have to keep typing the sprintf statement.

[Anon]

Thanks! I knew there was an easy answer.