One more question...

[Anon]

I need my currency figures to display in this format 150.00 - not 150.0000. How do I format my numbers to always have 2 digits beyond the decimal point?

I need 150 to be made 150.00 and 150.000 to be made 150.00

Thanks again!

Seth

[chowdary]

Hi Seth,
I am not aware of any such inbuilt function try using this.

function formatNumber($num)
{
$str= (string) $num;
$dot_pos=strrpos($str, ".");
if($dot_pos>1){
$first_part=substr($str, 0, $dot_pos);
$last_part=strrchr($str, ".");
$len = strlen($last_part);
if ($len == 2){
$new_val= (double) $str."0";
} elseif ($len == 3){
$new_val= (double) $str;
} elseif ($len > 3){
$new_val = (double) $first_part.substr($last_part, 0, 3);
}
} else {

       $new_val= (double) $str.".00";
     }
       return $new_val;
   }

Cheers
Ajay

[dstockto]

An easy way to format your currency numbers is to use the printf function. For example:

printf ("You spent \$.2f., $currency_amount);

Take a look at printf in the php manual or if you are a c/c++ programmer it works basically the same... It should be a much easier solution than a long script.

Dave

[renegade888]

If you don't want to use printf, you can use sprintf like so...

$formatted_dollars = sprintf($dollars, "%.2f);

which would allow you to use the variable as many times as you would like without having to format everywhere you want to use it.