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Formating numbers

Hi,

is there a way to format number without using format_number I'm using fpdf to output some graph and if I use number_format it get confused. I do not know why but it dose.

I only need to format the number for printing 87.12345678 just wont cut it I need to display 87 or 12345.12345678 just wont do I need to display 12,345 is there a way to acomplish this?

my out put goes from 87 dollars to as high as 78,564.

Thanks

Rafael

8ball629

Well, I'm not sure why it would be choking on number_format. That seems to be the best route to go and if you don't want decimals do you want to round the number?

If so try...
number_format(round($int, 0));

There may be a better solution but I've never had problems with number_format before.. What exact problems did you see with the number_format?

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Richard Quadling

And to format a number with no decimal part ...

number_format($value, 0);

Rounding like 8ball629 suggested, is probably a not a good idea, but that depends upon the data and what the chart is showing.

star_trek

if you are retrieving the values from database, you can try formatting from the database.
For example for MySQL
select format(12345.78,0)

would return 12,346

rcleon

ASKER

I think you guys are right it is the commas and/or the decimal here is the portion of the calc.

function BarDiagram($w, $h, $data, $format, $color=null, $maxVal=0, $nbDiv=4)
      {
            $this->SetFont('Arial', 'B', 10);
            $this->SetLegends($data,$format);

            $XPage = $this->GetX();
            $YPage = $this->GetY();
            $margin = 2;
            $YDiag = $YPage + $margin;
            $hDiag = floor($h - $margin * 2);
            $XDiag = $XPage + $margin * 2 + $this->wLegend;
            $lDiag = floor($w - $margin * 3 - $this->wLegend);

            if($color == null)
                  $color=array(155,155,155);

            if ($maxVal == 0) {
                  $maxVal = max($data);
            }

            $valIndRepere = ceil($maxVal / $nbDiv);

            $maxVal = $valIndRepere * $nbDiv;

            $lRepere = floor($lDiag / $nbDiv);

            $lDiag = $lRepere * $nbDiv;

            $unit = $lDiag / $maxVal;

            $hBar = floor($hDiag / ($this->NbVal + 1));

            $hDiag = $hBar * ($this->NbVal + 1);

            $eBaton = floor($hBar * 80 / 100);

Any help will be appricated.

Rafael

I send more that what I think you would need but I wanted to make sure you could see the parameters of the function.

rcleon

ASKER

Thank you guys,

I took the hint from RQ an was able to rewrite the function taking into consideration the comma. If this had not been suggested I would have never found the solution.

Thanks

Rafael

8ball629

For the record, the reason I was suggesting round it is because of the following:

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I only need to format the number for printing 87.12345678 just wont cut it I need to display 87 or 12345.12345678 just wont do I need to display 12,345 is there a way to acomplish this?
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