PHP money_format(); £ sign not GBP

Posted on 26 January, 2012 by Stacked

I cannot work out how to get the currency symbol?

At the moment I am using

setlocale(LC_MONETARY, 'en_GB');
money_format('%i', 1000);

Which give me the output

GBP1,000

But I want

£1,000

I have checked out the PHP manual but it isn’t that helpful.

Any ideas?

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4 Responses to PHP money_format(); £ sign not GBP

  1. Aidan says:
    31 January, 2012 at 9:14

    An easy solution could be te replace GBP with & pound ; (without the spaces) after the money_format.

    Reply
  2. Rado says:
    31 January, 2012 at 13:21

    Not familiar with the benefits of money_format, but I would just use number_format instead and just prepend the currency symbol to it.

    Reply
  3. Fernando says:
    31 January, 2012 at 18:06

    Use str_replace() function is an option.

    £ – British Pound – £ (163)

    // Search for the GBP in your string (subject) then replace for the symbol code
$search = "GBP";
$replace = "£";
$subject = "GBP";
echo str_replace($search, $replace, $subject);
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  4. B4NZ41 says:
    7 February, 2012 at 21:02

    Use str_replace() function is an option.

    £ – British Pound – £ (163)

    // Search for the GBP in your string (subject) then replace for the symbol code
$search = "GBP";
$replace = "£";
$subject = "GBP";
echo str_replace($search, $replace, $subject);
    Reply

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