Tag Archives: money-format

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
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How to output abbreviated currency symbol instead of currency name when using money_format()?

Posted on 5 July, 2011 by Stacked
Is there a flag in the money_format function that lets you replace the long currency (e.g. USD, EUR) with the abbreviated version ($, €)? Incoming search terms:php money_format eur usd Continue reading →
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If dealing with money in a float is bad, then why does money_format() do it?

Posted on 11 January, 2011 by Stacked
I’ve been waffling on how to deal with currency display and math in PHP, and for a long time have been storing it in MySQL using the DECIMAL type, and using money_format() to format it for display on the web… Continue reading →
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