formatting currency from mySQL using PHP

[tyktok]

I know this is gonna turn out to be really simple to do but it is just not working for me.

I need to format numbers such as the following:

9600
42000
135995

To look like:

£9,600
£42,000
£135,995

Please help, cheers.

 

[sleipnir214]

I'll assume from your post you don't need help getting the pound-sterling symbol ahead of the numbers.

If your installation of PHP has perl-compatible regular expressions enabled, here's a snippet that will put commas in numbers:

[tt]<?php

$foo = 350000;
$foo = strrev ($foo);
$foo = preg_replace (&quot;/(\d\d\d)(?=\d)(?!\d*\.)/&quot;, &quot;\\1,&quot;, $foo);
$foo = strrev ($foo);

print $foo;

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[tyktok]

Thanks a lot sleipnir214 , that worked a treat.

 

[KarveR]

why not just use number_format($number);

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[sleipnir214]

That might work, too.
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