How to display integer data as currency USD

[jej1216]

Using MySQL to store data that is in integer form. Need to display data as USD (such as $678,321 for the integer value 678321).

Do I use PHP to do this or straight HTML? I have an HTML Form right now to display the data as it is formatted in MySQL.

TIA,

jej1216

[kenno69]

maybe try
[PHP]echo "$", $your variable to get the integer;[/PHP]
that will echo $678321
or if there is loads of numbers you want it doing to
[PHP]while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
echo "$" .$row['thesqltable'].
}

[/PHP]

[kovik]

number_format()

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

There is also money_format(), but it doesn't work on all servers (Windows in particular).

[pbmods]

MySQL also has its own FORMAT() function.

[jej1216]

Thanks, all.

In general, is it better practice to do the formatting in PHP or in MySQL?

Or does it make any difference?

It's a small table, so I'm not too concerned with execution time.

- jej1216

[kovik]

MySQL should have the raw numbers.

[jej1216]

Thanks - I stored the raw numbers in MySQL and used the formatting code for PHP, as suggested. Works like a charm.

Thanks again,

jej1216