NumberFormatter::formatCurrency

numfmt_format_currency

(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0, PHP 7, PECL intl >= 1.0.0)

NumberFormatter::formatCurrency -- numfmt_format_currency — Format a currency value

Description

Object oriented style

public string NumberFormatter::formatCurrency ( float $value , string $currency )

Procedural style

string numfmt_format_currency ( NumberFormatter $fmt , float $value , string $currency )

Format the currency value according to the formatter rules.

Parameters

fmt: NumberFormatter object.
value: The numeric currency value.
currency: The 3-letter ISO 4217 currency code indicating the currency to use.

Return Values

String representing the formatted currency value.

Examples

Example #1 numfmt_format_currency() example


<?php
$fmt = numfmt_create( 'de_DE', NumberFormatter::CURRENCY );
echo numfmt_format_currency($fmt, 1234567.891234567890000, "EUR")."\n";
echo numfmt_format_currency($fmt, 1234567.891234567890000, "RUR")."\n";
$fmt = numfmt_create( 'ru_RU', NumberFormatter::CURRENCY );
echo numfmt_format_currency($fmt, 1234567.891234567890000, "EUR")."\n";
echo numfmt_format_currency($fmt, 1234567.891234567890000, "RUR")."\n";
?>

Example #2 OO example


<?php
$fmt = new NumberFormatter( 'de_DE', NumberFormatter::CURRENCY );
echo $fmt->formatCurrency(1234567.891234567890000, "EUR")."\n";
echo $fmt->formatCurrency(1234567.891234567890000, "RUR")."\n";
$fmt = new NumberFormatter( 'ru_RU', NumberFormatter::CURRENCY );
echo $fmt->formatCurrency(1234567.891234567890000, "EUR")."\n";
echo $fmt->formatCurrency(1234567.891234567890000, "RUR")."\n";
?>

The above example will output:

1.234.567,89 €
1.234.567,89 RUR
1 234 567,89€
1 234 567,89р.

User Contributed Notes

Ruben

3 years ago


While this function accepts floats for currency (in order to display cents), you should (for applications where this is critical) never store or handle money using floats, as rounding errors may occur. Work with integers (or a BigInt class if integers aren't large enough) internally instead, where the integer represents the total number of cents. An alternative (especially if you need more precision than cents) is using the BC (Binary Calculator) Math module, that handles arbitrary precision numbers with 100% accuracy.

martin t holzhauer dohd eu

2 years ago


When you want to format currency's without sub units and the currency is not the one used by the given locale you need to set the currency code before as TextAttribute _BEFORE_ setting the NumberFormatter::FRACTION_DIGITS

<?php
$fmt = new NumberFormatter('en_US', NumberFormatter::CURRENCY);
$fmt->setTextAttribute(NumberFormatter::CURRENCY_CODE, 'EUR');
$fmt->setAttribute(NumberFormatter::FRACTION_DIGITS, 0);
$fmt->formatCurrency(100, 'EUR');
?>

Tyler Crompton

1 year ago


This had me scratching my head. When working with certain English locales (e.g. "en_US" and "en_CA" among others but certainly not all), it is important to note that negative numbers are formatted differently between PHP 5.5 and PHP 5.6.

Code:

<?php

$formatter = new NumberFormatter('en_US', NumberFormatter::CURRENCY);
echo $formatter->formatCurrency(-0.99, 'USD'), PHP_EOL;

$formatter = new NumberFormatter('en_CA', NumberFormatter::CURRENCY);
echo $formatter->formatCurrency(-0.99, 'USD'), PHP_EOL;

?>

Output from PHP 5.5:

-$0.99
-US$0.99

Output from PHP 5.6:

($0.99)
(US$0.99)

Benoit Borrel

5 months ago


When setting the pattern, don't forget that space character between currency symbol and number (either as prefix or suffix) should not be breakable (like &nbsp; for HTML). For example, in UTF-8 you should use the no-break-space character ("\xC2\xA0"):
<?php 
$fmt = new NumberFormatter('en_US', NumberFormatter::CURRENCY);
$fmt->setPattern(str_replace('¤#',"¤\xC2\xA0#", $fmt->getPattern()));
?>

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