Here's a Number Format Plugin
Development and Programming
Surely someone has already done this and I am just a lazy searcher. But here’s something that often comes up so I made a plugin for myself, and you guys can have it too.
Imagine, you have a shopping cart with products in it. So in the template you say something like:
{exp:my_shopping_cart}
<h2>Cool Item</h2>
Only ${price} !!!11!one!!
{/exp:my_shopping_cart}But this gets rendered as follows with no commas or decimal points :(
<h2>Cool Item</h2>
Only $12000 !!!11!one!!So what do you do? Add PHP to that template? Noooo, you use this nifty plugin.
{exp:my_shopping_cart}
<h2>Cool Item</h2>
Only ${exp:number_format number="{price}" decimals="2"} !!!11!one!!
{/exp:my_shopping_cart}And it renders the way you wanted it:
<h2>Cool Item</h2>
Only $12,000.00 !!!11!one!!Basically it’s just a wrapper for PHP’s number_format function.
Cool. But I think I would name it something different since it’s not necessarily specific to the shopping cart.
Hey guys, thanks for the replies. In the usage section of the plugin there are examples on how to change the thousands_seperator or the decimal_point. I didn’t choose those names, PHP did with their awesome open source coding standards, oh, wait, never mind. Please see the PHP doc for more information on how number_format works, all the parameters are named the same and are just passed through to the function. http://php.net/manual/en/function.number-format.php
Also it’s named number_format because that’s the name PHP chose. I used the shopping cart example, because I’m using it in my shopping cart.
Just wanted to say thanks for this plugin! I was trying to find a way to do this for displaying the total number of images in my gallery - once it hit 10,000 I was starting to sorely miss number_format. So this was perfect - thanks for writing & releasing it! 😊