number_format

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

number_format — Format a number with grouped thousands

Descrição

number_format(
    float $num,
    int $decimals = 0,
    ?string $decimal_separator = ".",
    ?string $thousands_separator = ","
): string

Formats a number with grouped thousands and optionally decimal digits using the rounding half up rule.

Parâmetros

num: The number being formatted.
decimals: Sets the number of decimal digits. If 0, the decimal_separator is omitted from the return value.
decimal_separator: Sets the separator for the decimal point.
thousands_separator: Sets the thousands separator.

Valor Retornado

A formatted version of num.

Registro de Alterações

Versão	Descrição
8.0.0	Prior to this version, number_format() accepted one, two, or four parameters (but not three).
7.2.0	number_format() was changed to not being able to return `-0`, previously `-0` could be returned for cases like where `num` would be `-0.01`.

Exemplos

Exemplo #1 number_format() Example

For instance, French notation usually use two decimals, comma (',') as decimal separator, and space (' ') as thousand separator. The following example demonstrates various ways to format a number:

<?php

$number = 1234.56;

// english notation (default)
$english_format_number = number_format($number);
// 1,235

// French notation
$nombre_format_francais = number_format($number, 2, ',', ' ');
// 1 234,56

$number = 1234.5678;

// english notation without thousands separator
$english_format_number = number_format($number, 2, '.', '');
// 1234.57

?>

Veja Também

money_format() - Formata um número como uma string de moeda
sprintf() - Return a formatted string
printf() - Output a formatted string
sscanf() - Interpreta a entrada de uma string de acordo com um formato

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thomas at weblizards dot de ¶

15 years ago


It's not explicitly documented; number_format also rounds:

<?php
$numbers = array(0.001, 0.002, 0.003, 0.004, 0.005, 0.006, 0.007, 0.008, 0.009);
foreach ($numbers as $number)
    print $number."->".number_format($number, 2, '.', ',')."<br>";
?>

0.001->0.00
0.002->0.00
0.003->0.00
0.004->0.00
0.005->0.01
0.006->0.01
0.007->0.01
0.008->0.01
0.009->0.01

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Jeroen de Bruijn [NL] ¶

19 years ago


If you want to display a number ending with ,- (like 200,-) when there are no decimal characters and display the decimals when there are decimal characters i use:

function DisplayDouble($value)
  {
  list($whole, $decimals) = split ('[.,]', $value, 2);
  if (intval($decimals) > 0)
    return number_format($value,2,".",",");
  else
    return number_format($value,0,".",",") .",-";
  }

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info at ensostudio dot ru ¶

2 years ago


Note: use NumberFormatter to convert in human-readable format instead  user function from comments:
<?php
echo NumberFormatter::create('en', NumberFormatter::SPELLOUT)->format(12309); // twelve thousand three hundred nine
echo NumberFormatter::create('ru', NumberFormatter::SPELLOUT)->format(12307.5); //  двенадцать тысяч триста семь целых пять десятых
?>

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james at bandit dot co.nz ¶

15 years ago


Outputs a human readable number.

<?php
    #    Output easy-to-read numbers
    #    by james at bandit.co.nz
    function bd_nice_number($n) {
        // first strip any formatting;
        $n = (0+str_replace(",","",$n));
        
        // is this a number?
        if(!is_numeric($n)) return false;
        
        // now filter it;
        if($n>1000000000000) return round(($n/1000000000000),1).' trillion';
        else if($n>1000000000) return round(($n/1000000000),1).' billion';
        else if($n>1000000) return round(($n/1000000),1).' million';
        else if($n>1000) return round(($n/1000),1).' thousand';
        
        return number_format($n);
    }
?>

Outputs:

247,704,360 -> 247.7 million
866,965,260,000 -> 867 billion

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MarcM ¶

18 years ago


For Zero fill - just use the sprintf() function

$pr_id = 1;
$pr_id = sprintf("%03d", $pr_id);
echo $pr_id;

//outputs 001
-----------------

$pr_id = 10;
$pr_id = sprintf("%03d", $pr_id);
echo $pr_id;

//outputs 010
-----------------

You can change %03d to %04d, etc.

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Theo Diem ¶

21 years ago


formatting numbers may be more easy if u use number_format function.

I also wrote this :
function something($number)
{
    $locale = localeconv();
    return number_format($number,
       $locale['frac_digits'],
        $locale['decimal_point'],
        $locale['thousands_sep']);
}

hope this helps =)
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stm555 at hotmail dot com ¶

19 years ago


I ran across an issue where I wanted to keep the entered precision of a real value, without arbitrarily rounding off what the user had submitted.

I figured it out with a quick explode on the number before formatting. I could then format either side of the decimal.

<?php
      function number_format_unlimited_precision($number,$decimal = '.')
      {
           $broken_number = explode($decimal,$number);
           return number_format($broken_number[0]).$decimal.$broken_number[1];
      }
?>

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Mad Max ¶

1 year ago


India (~18% of the world's population), Pakistan (~3%), Bangladesh (~2%), Nepal, and Myanmar, have a different way to display large numbers:

10,23,45,678.20

The first thousand is "normal" but then there is a comma every TWO digits after that.

Now look at the number_format() function.  Do you see a way to control the placement and frequency of the commas?  Or a mode option/switch to deal with displaying numbers for almost 1/4 of the total population on Earth?  Neither do I.

If you are developing an application for an international audience, the ICU-based Intl PHP extension might work fine for you.  However, IBM's ICU library is a resource heavy library (because...IBM), isn't the fastest library on the planet (also normal for IBM), ICU formatters are somewhat unreliable/inconsistent (yup, still IBM), and the Intl extension isn't always available in PHP (this one's PHP).  So there are many significant hurdles to overcome just to prepare a number for display using the Intl extension.

In short, approximately 23% of the planet currently can't use this function for displaying large numbers and there isn't a good built-in *lightweight* alternative other than to roll your own solution that outright replaces this function.  Formatting a number for display is an extremely common task.

Disclaimer:  This comment serves as a warning to others that this function isn't suitable for an international audience in its current state.  This comment is not a question, bug report, or feature request.  I'm simply commenting on the current state of affairs with this function.  If someone opts to make changes/improvements, then great, but that's not the purpose here.

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liviu andrei (bls) ¶

13 years ago


To prevent the rounding that occurs when next digit after last significant decimal is 5 (mentioned by several people below):

<?php
function fnumber_format($number, $decimals='', $sep1='', $sep2='') {

        if (($number * pow(10 , $decimals + 1) % 10 ) == 5)  //if next not significant digit is 5
            $number -= pow(10 , -($decimals+1));

        return number_format($number, $decimals, $sep1, $sep2);

}

$t=7.15;
echo $t . " | " . number_format($t, 1, '.', ',') .  " | " . fnumber_format($t, 1, '.', ',') . "\n\n";
//result is: 7.15 | 7.2 | 7.1

$t=7.3215;
echo $t . " | " . number_format($t, 3, '.', ',') .  " | " . fnumber_format($t, 3, '.', ',') . "\n\n";
//result is: 7.3215 | 7.322 | 7.321
} ?>

have fun!

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support at piri dot sk ¶

1 year ago


My simpler solution to the problem of the decimal number in this function being longer than the specified number of decimals.

Standard result for number_format() is..
number_format(5.00098, 2) = 5.00

My function will return the result = 5.001

<?php

// ** Warning: Does not work with scientific notation. Conversion to a real number is required. **

echo auto_decimal_format(5.0005620); // print 5.0006
echo auto_decimal_format(5.0009820); // print 5.001
echo auto_decimal_format(5.00098, 8); // print 5.00098000
echo auto_decimal_format(1.0295691366783E-5, 2); // print 0.00

function auto_decimal_format($n, $def = 2) {
    $a = explode(".", $n);
    if (count($a)>1) {
        $b = str_split($a[1]);
        $pos = 1;
        foreach ($b as $value) {
            if ($value != 0 && $pos >= $def) {
                $c = number_format($n, $pos);
                $c_len = strlen(substr(strrchr($c, "."), 1));
                if ($c_len > $def) { return rtrim($c, 0); }
                return $c; // or break
            }
            $pos++;
        }
    }
    return number_format($n, $def);
}

?>

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