Problem with converting from string to number

Question

I have a variable $totalprice with number 1,072.00.

If I use int($totalprice) or number_format($totalprice), it outputs 1.00.

How can I solve this problem? I want 1072.00

Answer 1

$totalprice = (float)str_replace(',', '', $totalprice)

That will get you a normal float representation of the number. You can then apply the number_format function to that to get the desired output.

Perhaps you should rethink your handling of numbers. How in the first place the number gets the format 1,072.00? You shouldn't do any formatting to it until outputting to the browser, so the number should always be in the 1072.00 format.

Answer 2

Problem you are having is about locales. To avoid issue about money formatting i would suggesT you to use

string money_format ( string $format , float $number )

By using this function you can format the number according to desired format. you can read more about this function and what formatting type to use here: money_format

Answer 3

It is not a bug ,because your number is parsed from left till first invalid character (the ,)

so 1,072.00 is really 1,072.00 , and just the bold section is parsed when you are trying to convert the string to number.