Posted by peter on 11/01/06 10:14

> I'm back with another question that I can't find any answers for, so I'm
> hoping you guys can point me in the right direction again.
>
> In the price colum of the product tables I have set to decimal 6,2, I then
> use
>
> $n = ($row['price']) ;
> number_format ($n, 2);
>
> for displaying the correct money format on the page.
>
> As some of the products have the need for "Please call for price", to be
> added to the description, thus leaving the price field empty, I have set
> it to null.
>
> But because I'm using number_format I still get 0.00 displayed on the
> page. Could some one be so kind to explain how I might get around this, or
> know of a link to a site that explains this. Would an if statement be the
> solution? At the moment I've had to use css diplay: none; to get around
> it. But I'd prefer not to have it there full stop.

why not just use an if statement. If null do no formatting and if not null
format it as needed.

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