I have some price values to display in my page.
I am writing a function which takes the float price and returns the formatted currency val with currency code too..
For example, fnPrice(1001.01)
should print $ 1,000.01
I have some price values to display in my page.
I am writing a function which takes the float price and returns the formatted currency val with currency code too..
For example, fnPrice(1001.01)
should print $ 1,000.01
The easiest answer is number_format()
.
echo "$ ".number_format($value, 2);
If you want your application to be able to work with multiple currencies and locale-aware formatting (1.000,00
for some of us Europeans for example), it becomes a bit more complex.
There is money_format()
but it doesn't work on Windows and relies on setlocale()
, which is rubbish in my opinion, because it requires the installation of (arbitrarily named) locale packages on server side.
If you want to seriously internationalize your application, consider using a full-blown internationalization library like Zend Framework's Zend_Locale and Zend_Currency.
with the intl extension in PHP 5.3+, you can use the NumberFormatter class:
$amount = '12345.67';
$formatter = new NumberFormatter('en_GB', NumberFormatter::CURRENCY);
echo 'UK: ', $formatter->formatCurrency($amount, 'EUR'), PHP_EOL;
$formatter = new NumberFormatter('de_DE', NumberFormatter::CURRENCY);
echo 'DE: ', $formatter->formatCurrency($amount, 'EUR'), PHP_EOL;
which prints :
UK: €12,345.67
DE: 12.345,67 €
sprintf() is the PHP function for all sorts of string formatting http://php.net/manual/en/function.sprintf.php
I use this function:
function formatDollars($dollars){
return '$ '.sprintf('%0.2f', $dollars);
}
I built this little function to automatically format anything into a nice currency format.
function formatDollars($dollars)
{
return "$".number_format(sprintf('%0.2f', preg_replace("/[^0-9.]/", "", $dollars)),2);
}
Edit
It was pointed out that this does not show negative values. I broke it into two lines so it's easier to edit the formatting. Wrap it in parenthesis if it's a negative value:
function formatDollars($dollars)
{
$formatted = "$" . number_format(sprintf('%0.2f', preg_replace("/[^0-9.]/", "", $dollars)), 2);
return $dollars < 0 ? "({$formatted})" : "{$formatted}";
}
<?php
$number = 1234.56;
// english notation (default)
$english_format_number = number_format($number);
// 1,235
// French notation
$nombre_format_francais = number_format($number, 2, ',', ' ');
// 1 234,56
$number = 1234.5678;
// english notation without thousands separator
$english_format_number = number_format($number, 2, '.', '');
// 1234.57
?>
PHP has a function called money_format
for doing this. Read about this here.