[PHP 4 >= 4.3.0, PHP 5, PHP 7]
money_format — Formats a number as a currency string
Warning
This function has been DEPRECATED as of PHP 7.4.0, and REMOVED as of PHP 8.0.0. Relying on this function is highly discouraged.
Description
money_format[string $format, float $number]: string
Parameters
formatThe format specification consists of the following sequence:
a
%characteroptional flags
optional field width
optional left precision
optional right precision
a required conversion character
One or more of the optional flags below can be used:
=f The character = followed by a [single byte] character f to be used as the numeric fill character. The default fill character is space.
^Disable the use of grouping characters [as defined by the current locale].
+ or [
Specify the formatting style for positive and negative numbers. If + is used, the locale's equivalent for + and - will be used. If [ is used, negative amounts are enclosed in parenthesis. If no specification is given, the default is +.
!Suppress the currency symbol from the output string.
-If present, it will make all fields left-justified [padded to the right], as opposed to the default which is for the fields to be right-justified [padded to the left].
Field width w A decimal digit string specifying a minimum field width. Field will be right-justified unless the flag - is used. Default value is 0 [zero].
#nThe maximum number of digits [n] expected to the left of the decimal character [e.g. the decimal point]. It is used usually to keep formatted output aligned in the same columns, using the fill character if the number of digits is less than n. If the number of actual digits is bigger than n, then this specification is ignored.
If grouping has not been suppressed using the ^ flag, grouping separators will be inserted before the fill characters [if any] are added. Grouping separators will not be applied to fill characters, even if the fill character is a digit.
To ensure alignment, any characters appearing before or after the number in the formatted output such as currency or sign symbols are padded as necessary with space characters to make their positive and negative formats an equal length.
Right precision.pA period followed by the number of digits [p] after the decimal character. If the value of p is 0 [zero], the decimal character and the digits to its right will be omitted. If no right precision is included, the default will dictated by the current locale in use. The amount being formatted is rounded to the specified number of digits prior to formatting.
Conversion charactersiThe number is formatted according to the locale's international currency format [e.g. for the USA locale: USD 1,234.56].
nThe number is formatted according to the locale's national currency format [e.g. for the de_DE locale: EU1.234,56].
% Returns the % character.
numberThe number to be formatted.
Return Values
Returns the formatted string. Characters before and after the formatting string will be returned unchanged. Non-numeric number causes returning null and emitting E_WARNING.
Examples
Example #1 money_format[] Example
We will use different locales and format specifications to illustrate the use of this function.
Rafael M. Salvioni ¶
13 years ago
This is a some function posted before, however various bugs were corrected.
Thank you to Stuart Roe by reporting the bug on printing signals.
jeremy ¶
13 years ago
If money_format doesn't seem to be working properly, make sure you are defining a valid locale. For example, on Debian, 'en_US' is not a valid locale - you need 'en_US.UTF-8' or 'en_US.ISO-8559-1'.
This was frustrating me for a while. Debian has a list of valid locales at /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED; find yours there if it's not working properly.
jsb17NO at SPAMcornell dot edu ¶
9 years ago
To drop zero value decimals, use the following: