Bug #13011: formatting numbers

From: dcaylor@maf.org Operating system: Linux 7.1 PHP version: 4.0.4pl1 PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description: formatting numbers It would be extremely helpful to be able to do more formatting of numbers than is currently available. Specifically, it would be good if number_format would prepend a dollar sign or allow negative numbers to be shown in brackets rather than with a negative sign. Both of these are necessary for accounting applications. My current solution for negative currency looks like this: if ( $value < 0 ) { $value = "(\$".number_format(abs($value),2).")"; } which works but is less than ideal. For one thing, it makes later use of the number difficult. -- Edit bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=13011&edit=1