Help - Formating numbers

[DesComm]

Currently numbers are shown like 1234567 - How do you get formating to 1,234,567, I have tried to use php below results in a error.

// english notation (default)

$english_format_number = number_format($number);

// 1,235

I was able to format Money with commas using the following in

app.config.php now that formats $12,345.55

Config::Set('MONEY_FORMAT', '%i(#10n');

[web541]

To format a number, the first one was correct, but I believe you were getting an error because you haven't specified what the $number variable is.

Try this

<?php
$number = 123456789;
$format = number_format($number);
echo $format;
?>

If that still doesn't work, then try doing it straight from a number

<?php
$format = number_format("123456789");
echo $format;
?>

To format the money easily in phpVMS just use this:

<?php echo FinanceData::formatMoney(floatval(Auth::$userinfo->totalpay)); ?>

To get the pay for the currently logged in user, otherwise change Auth::$userinfo->totalpay to another variable depending on where you want to put it.

[DesComm]

To format a number, the first one was correct, but I believe you were getting an error because you haven't specified what the $number variable is.

Try this

<?php
$number = 123456789
$format = number_format($number);
echo $format;
?>

If that still doesn't work, then try doing it straight from a number

<?php
$format = number_format("123456789");
echo $format;
?>

Neither of the above fixed the issue, numbers still did not have commas in them. Any other fixes??

[web541]

Do you mind telling us where you want to put the code and what information you want to have formatted?

[DesComm]

Do you mind telling us where you want to put the code and what information you want to have formatted?

These were done in /core/app.config.php - we want this to apply to all numbers in phpvms. Weather it be logs, flights, hours all numbers should be shown with commas inserted.

[web541]

Hmmm, there is no setting to globally change all numbers to number_format() I don't think, so the best solution would be to change them manually.

I guess you could keep fiddling in the config file, but it's not set to change anything in particular so it might not work.

[simpilot]

You could use the setlocale function and set the LC_NUMERIC category somewhere at the start of the script. -> http://php.net/manual/en/function.setlocale.php

No guarantees on this as there is a lot of places in phpVMS thst use various types of numeric values including flight numbers and pilot id's. You will probably end up with things like => Flight # ABC1,234 - most likely you will need to just use number_format where you want your specific format.