Currency Format in Form Text Field

[FeralReason]

I am making an HTML form to edit an inventory record (retrieved from MySql). Does anyone know how I can format a float in a text field as currency. (Using PHP. Prefer not to use Javascript unless that is the only way.)

 

Thanx !

[gregor171]

money_format  ( string $format  , float $number  );

http://us2.php.net/money_format

[FeralReason]

Thanks much for your quick reply.

Unfortunately I am on a WAMP stack and money_format does not seem to be defined on Windows.

Looked good tho....

[Ken2k7]

What do you mean? It's a PHP function.

[Axeia]

Note: The function money_format() is only defined if the system has strfmon capabilities. For example, Windows does not, so money_format() is undefined in Windows.

Read the comments on the same page though, looks like someone posted a fully php based version of it doing the same thing for windows platforms.

It does however not have a function check build in, so you might want to add that yourself unless you're sure your script will ALWAYS be run on a windows server since the 'native function' will doubtlessly be many times faster.

[FeralReason]

Alexia - you are correct on both points. I did try this code and although it seems to correctly format the floating point value in the form's textbox I was then unable to edit / save the value -- so I am not sure that the money_format() function was intended to be used inside a form's text box. (If anyone is using this in a form, I would love to see how you are doing it !) I am fairly new to PHP/HTML but in other environments, setting how values are formatted (currency,etc) at the presentation layer (in forms) has always seemed fairly straightforward. I must be missing something...