Re: displaying neat and tidy currency notation?

George, have a look at number_format() (http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.number-format.php). that in combo with round() should do the trick. On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 16:16:27 -0000, n.a.morgan@bton.ac.uk <n.a.morgan@bton.ac.uk> wrote: > You could try concatenating a string of "0"s (£25.5000) on the end and using > substr on the whole to get your £25.50. > > $currency = $currency . "000"; > $currency = substr( $currency, 0, strpos($currency,'.') + 3 ) > > Neil Morgan > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: George Pitcher [mailto:george.pitcher@ingenta.com] > Sent: 03 December 2004 15:49 > To: php-windows@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP-WIN] displaying neat and tidy currency notation? > > Hi, > > I want to be able to display the results of some calculations as currency > such as £25.50, but round($var,2) produces £25.5. > > I've tried writing my own function but that just fouled up the calculation. > > Any tips or suggestions? > > Cheers > > George in Oxford > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- William Cox email: mydimension@gmail.com blog: http://my-dimension.com