Re: Round with money_format

Oops... On 16 Sep 2011, at 16:36, Stuart Dallas wrote: > On 16 Sep 2011, at 15:58, Cyril Lopez wrote: > >> Can someone help me understand how money_format() rounds numbers ? >> >> <?php >> setlocale(LC_ALL, 'fr_FR.UTF-8'); >> $price = 12.665; >> echo money_format('%i',$price); >> // 12.66 EUR, 12.67 EUR expected >> >> $price2 = 12.666; >> echo money_format('%i',$price2); >> // 12.67 EUR, ok >> >> echo round($price,2); >> // 12.67, ok >> echo round($price2,2); >> // 12.67, ok >> ?> >> >> Misconfiguration ? Bug ? > > It's a direct mapping to the libc function, strfmon [1], and an equivalent C script gave > the same result so it's not a bug in PHP. Locales can't define rounding rules, so > it's not related to that. > > Googling for strfmon rounding errors doesn't get any useful results, so either this is by > design or it's never caused anyone a problem. > > Solution... pass the number through round before going in to money_format. > > -Stuart [1] http://lxr.php.net/opengrok/xref/PHP_5_3/ext/standard/string.c#5156 > -- > Stuart Dallas > 3ft9 Ltd > http://3ft9.com/