string to double

hello,

i have a string value '1,200.00' and i would like to convert it to a double. is there a php function that can handle this?

thanks.

$str = '1,200.00';
$float = str_replace(",","",$str);

now use $float 🙂

first check out:
settype function: http://php.net/settype

somthing like: settype($string, "float");