PHP: number_format issue

Question

Iv taken over a very old php project that is still currently in use. Its a custom "shopping" website.

When a product gets ordered it inserts the money value into the database as a string of integers:

2000

which then gets outputted as follows:

R20,00

Using this code

echo number_format($order['order_total'] / 100, 2, ",", "");

My problem is that if an order gets placed to the value of R 15 256.00 The record gets inserted as such:

15256

and gets outputted to the user as:

R 152,56

But it should ultimately show like this

R15, 256.00

I do understand that the problem comes in by dividing the amount by 100 in the above query. If i alter the query then the larger numbers appear fine but the smaller amounts such as R20,00 get shown as R2000,00

Any help would be great.

Answer 1

You can you PHP's native function money_format() , which will format the number as a currency. Using setlocale() you can set the appropriate locale.

setlocale(LC_MONETARY, 'en_IN'); 
echo money_format('%!i', 15256);

This will output:

15,256.00

Answer 2

Try This

echo number_format($order['order_total'] / 100, 2, ".", ",");

you can read more about number format here .