RE: [PHP-DB] Currency and number types...

number_format() is what you need

look it up

bastien

>From: Mark Benson <markbenson@mac.com>
>To: php-db@lists.php.net
>Subject: [PHP-DB] Currency and number types...
>Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 17:35:53 +0000
>
>I'm trying to display data calculated by my script as a currency. The
>problem I have is that PHP is treating the results of the math as a 'float'
>number (or 'double') so I am getting results like:
>
>12.0594393
>
>in my table. I have tried using:
>
>print round($foobar,2)
>
>but that cuts off the trailing zero on numbers that comne out as, for
>example '12.10' or '12.00'.
>
>Does anyone know a way to force PHP to print numbers to a set number of
>significant figures (i.e. 2) and stop the trailing zero suppression?
>
>--
>Mark Benson
>
>http://homepage.mac.com/markbenson
>
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