need help with locales for classifieds system

schwim

Hi there everyone,

I'm wrapping up a classifieds system for a site that has an international userbase and I'm working on formatting the inputted price for the user's chosen monetary locale. I'm reading up on money_format, but I'm having two problems. One, I am having a problem finding a list of locales to show the users(I'm trying to find out the needed or most popular locales to code for) and I'm also having problems figuring out how exactly to format the money with the proper monetary symbol. For instance, the manual gives this as an example:

// let's print the international format for the en_US locale
setlocale(LC_MONETARY, 'en_US');
echo money_format('%i', $number) . "\n";
// USD 1,234.56

How might I have it show $1,234.56 USD instead?

thanks for your time,
json

Bilbozilla

I would do something like this :

$currency_string="$";
$number_display = "" . $currency_string . $number . "";
echo $number_display;

If it's just for displaying purposes, use the $number_display string. Meanwhile, you can continue using your $number for any mathematical calculations.

schwim

My issue persists, however. Since different regions format a monetary string differently, I need to store it correctly, however I'm having a problem finding a full list of locales for this purpose. I found this article which explained the process a little better than the manual, but as with a lot of function pages in the php manual, much info is missing due to the assumption of prior knowledge.

I may just end up using number_format if I can't figure out money_format, which of course isn't as good a solution, but at least it's a function I can wrap my head around.

thanks,
json