Currency place holder

[rocg23]

ok, hopefully this will be my last question for day...

If there a way to make a total come out with cents places held?

	$price = .50 * $o[count];
	print "$o[count] at $.50    -   $price";

so even if there is only 1 $price shows up as .5

[mwinter]

If there a way to make a total come out with cents places held?

Do you mean to add trailing zeros? That is, "1." should be "1.00" and "0.3" should be "0.30".

Mike

[rocg23]

Yes, that is exactly what I am looking for...thanks

[djr33]

This is likely not the 'official' way, but here's an option and fairly simple...not sure if there's a faster/more efficient way (in server time):

<?
//$x is the value to be converted to "money" format
$x = $x*100;
$x = round($x);
$x = substr($x,0,strlen($x)-2).".".substr($x,strlen($x)-2);
//next line optional:
$x = "$".$x;
?>

[Twey]

You should escape that dollar sign. Also, don't use short tags (<?, <?=?>, &c.) when you don't know the server, since it might not have them enabled.

[djr33]

Oh, weird. The <? was a typo

escape fixed... just in single quotes instead due to that earier discussion...

Updated code:

<?php
//$x is the value to be converted to "money" format
$x = $x*100;
$x = round($x);
$x = substr($x,0,strlen($x)-2).'.'.substr($x,strlen($x)-2);
//next line optional:
$x = '$'.$x;
?>

Twey, does that seem like the logical solution for the problem? It's a pretty simple answer. Unless there's a specific function for this, I'd say it makes sense.
Would round($x,2) work? I think it would round correctly, but leave off trailing 0s... is that right?

[Twey]

That's the way I'd do it, if money_format() weren't available.

[mwinter]

One should keep in mind that monetary calculations are best performed using scaled integers: floating point data types cannot represent all fractions exactly, unlike integers.

function formatMoney($number, $currency = '$') {
    $string = str_pad(round($number), 3, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT);

    return $currency . substr($string, 0, -2) . '.' . substr($string, -2);
} 

If the first argument is a floating point number, it will rounded to an integer. For example, 1500.5 would be formatted as "$15.01".

Mike

[rocg23]

Worked like a charm, thanks...now one of these days I have to actually learn what this all means.

[djr33]

mike, that assumes that the input will be given in cents. I thought the question was related to something already in dollars, with the cents as the decimal.