note 54799 deleted from function.number-format by levim

Note Submitter: jarratt at si-works dot net ---- With one of the payment providers they required a monitary input of 12345.67 always with a 2 decimal placing even if .00 if you have a number 12345.5 with only one decimal place i could find no sutable php function to guarentee two decimal palces and add a trailing zero if required, This fucntion should assist function format_number($str,$decimal_places='2',$decimal_padding="0"){ /* firstly format number and shorten any extra decimal places */ /* Note this will round off the number pre-format $str if you dont want this fucntionality */ $str = number_format($str,$decimal_places,'.',''); // will return 12345.67 $number = explode('.',$str); $number[1] = (isset($number[1]))?$number[1]:''; // to fix the PHP Notice error if str does not contain a decimal placing. $decimal = str_pad($number[1],$decimal_places,$decimal_padding); return (float) $number[0].'.'.$decimal; } /* examples */ format_number('1234'); // --> 1234.00 format_number('1234.5'); //--> 1234.50 format_number('1234.567'); //--> 1234.57