Posted by Erwin Moller on 08/24/07 07:52

jerryyang_la1@yahoo.com wrote:
> I need some advice on formatting numbers using PHP.
>
> My database holds numbers like:
>
> 10
> 0.2
>
> I need these to be displayed as
>
> 10.00
> 0.20
>
> I'll add the '£' sign, so the end result is
>
> £10.00
> £0.20
>
> How do I do that. ? The vaule are coming from $number
>
>
> Also some of the numbers may be negatives:
>
> -0.3
> -5
>
> Is there any easy way to detect negitives ?
>
> Ideally I'd like to be able to show positive number in one color and
> negitive in red on screen.
>
> Thanks :)
>

Hi,

Here is an example using sprintf, straight from www.php.net
http://nl3.php.net/manual/en/function.sprintf.php


<?php
$money1 = 68.75;
$money2 = 54.35;
$money = $money1 + $money2;
// echo $money will output "123.1";
$formatted = sprintf("%01.2f", $money);
// echo $formatted will output "123.10"
?>

Regards,
Erwin Moller

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