Displaying commas in php
Sunday, March 1st, 2009For long, whenever I needed to format my figures (.. am talking of bucks), I had to write a new UDF to handle that. Just today when I was running through the php manual that I came across this neat function. — number_format()
Usage:
Supposing my variable that displays the currency where I need the thousand separator to be commas is $amount,
What I needed to do is to pass the variable as an argument, to the function and here is the code snippet that worked for me.
//other code lines $amount =number_format($amount); //other code lines
?>
It did the magic for me and when the amount was One million it was displayed like : 1,000,000
Have fun and enjoy as well!