[SOLVED] .50 instead of .5

[freddyw]

Ive read abiut the money_format() but i cant seem to make it work.

 

here is my code

 

<?php
$price = $price * 1.02;

              if ( $result != 0 ) 
              {
                echo "You are paying buy credit card. Your ticket has a transaction fee of 2.5%. Your new ticket price is $$price your card has been charged and your ticket will be dispatched shortly. Please make a note of the order id which is $id. Thankyou and enjoy the match";
              }
              else 
              {
                echo "Failed to buy";
              }
?>

 

Its displaying the price as $20.4 which in maths is correct but in money terms looks wrong. If i changed the code to

<?
Your new ticket price is $$price0
?>

 

it would work but only if the new price rounded to a 10. if it the price was 20.41 it would display 20.410 which again looks wrong.

 

is there a way of letting the php know it is money and needs to display 20.40

 

thanks in advnace

[smerny]

try

 

number_format($price, 2, '.', ',')

[freddyw]

thanks i placed that code after &price = $price * 1.02;

 

and im still geting the same result  20.4  not 20.40

 

any idea why?

[smerny]

did you set it to equal $price? like:

 

$price = number_format($price,2,'.',',');

 

?

[Philip]

// replace:
$price = $price * 1.02;

// with:
$price = sprintf('%.2f',$price * 1.02);

[freddyw]

thanks smerny got it working

 

thanks for the input phillip, that would have worked too