money_format() not showing currency

Question

I'm trying to use money_format function.

<?php

$number = 1299.46;

setlocale(LC_MONETARY, 'en_US');
echo money_format('%i', $number); // Outputs 1299.46

While it should print $ sign or USD ?

I'm on linux hosting.

Thanks

I can't replicate the issue you are having. Tested 5.6.2 - 4.4.9 all have USD. http://sandbox.onlinephpfunctions.com/code/5e8c4ba1962be5ed422a177e35e6762281b8eda3 — chris85, Jun 20 '15 at 17:47

score 15 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 20 '15 at 17:43

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money_format will not work properly if locale is not valid.

For example, on Debian, 'en_US' is not a valid locale - you need 'en_US.UTF-8' or 'en_US.ISO-8559-1'.

answered Jun 20 '15 at 17:43

Samir Das

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Damn it worked ! I don't understand why people above are marking my question negative. – Raheel Jun 20 '15 at 17:45
Seems they did not understand the question :) Anyway good to hear it is working – Samir Das Jun 20 '15 at 17:47
I ran into this issue with a shared server at Network Solutions and the problem is they don't support locale at all on their shared servers. Luckily in my case I was just dealing with US currency so I used `number_format()` instead and just prepended the '$'. Like this: `$result = '$' . number_format(120000);` which returns: $120,000. – Adam Christianson Mar 14 '16 at 21:27

Yevgeniy Afanasyev · Answer 2 · 2019-06-20T00:36:32.530

Locales are constants defined by the operation system.

I use Ubuntu for the following example.

check which locales are supported:
```
locale -a
```

add the locales you want (for example ru):

sudo locale-gen ru_RU
sudo locale-gen ru_RU.UTF-8

run this update comand
```
sudo update-locale 
```
restart php fpm ( check your php version service name like soservice --status-all)
```
sudo service php7.2-fpm restart
```

But be careful, because most likely you are useing Apache with "mod_php" because it is the most popular one. And this one works in multi thread environment, when setlocale() is not thread safe. Look here for details

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 20 '15 at 17:53

First you must know php version is using

If you are unsure how to check create a file called info.php

Insert code => <?php phpinfo(); ?>

(PHP 4 >= 4.3.0, PHP 5)
$number = 1234.56;

// let's print the international format for the en_US locale
setlocale(LC_MONETARY, 'en_US');
echo money_format('%i', $number) . "\n";
// USD 1,234.56

// Italian national format with 2 decimals`
setlocale(LC_MONETARY, 'it_IT');
echo money_format('%.2n', $number) . "\n";
// Eu 1.234,56

Note: The function money_format() is only defined if the system has strfmon capabilities. For example, Windows does not, so money_format() is undefined in Windows.

You can use an alternative (PHP 5 >= 5.3.0, PECL intl >= 1.0.0)

Example #1 numfmt_format_currency() example

$fmt = numfmt_create( 'de_DE', NumberFormatter::CURRENCY );
echo numfmt_format_currency($fmt, 1234567.891234567890000, "EUR")."\n";
echo numfmt_format_currency($fmt, 1234567.891234567890000, "RUR")."\n";
$fmt = numfmt_create( 'ru_RU', NumberFormatter::CURRENCY );
echo numfmt_format_currency($fmt, 1234567.891234567890000, "EUR")."\n";
echo numfmt_format_currency($fmt, 1234567.891234567890000, "RUR")."\n";

Example #2 OO example

$fmt = new NumberFormatter( 'de_DE', NumberFormatter::CURRENCY );
echo $fmt->formatCurrency(1234567.891234567890000, "EUR")."\n";
echo $fmt->formatCurrency(1234567.891234567890000, "RUR")."\n";
$fmt = new NumberFormatter( 'ru_RU', NumberFormatter::CURRENCY );
echo $fmt->formatCurrency(1234567.891234567890000, "EUR")."\n";
echo $fmt->formatCurrency(1234567.891234567890000, "RUR")."\n";

The above example will output:

1.234.567,89 €
1.234.567,89 RUR
1 234 567,89€
1 234 567,89р.

Examples taken from php.net

If the alternative is not possible, the solution is to create a method for your needs.

I hope helped you

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 20 '15 at 17:33

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It shouldn't give $ or USD back, consult the documentation. However you can do the following:

echo money_format('$%i', $number)

This will give the expected result but ofcourse it is not a dynamic solution.

answered Jun 20 '15 at 17:33

Anth Bieb

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Yes actually i want to obtain some dynamic solution. For example a user comes from UK so he should se EUR instead of USD. I thought `setlocate` would handle this thing. – Raheel Jun 20 '15 at 17:35
You should add the dynamic requirement to the question. – chris85 Jun 20 '15 at 17:45
from php.net i was trying: money_format('%(#10n', $Admin_amt); their site implied directly that a $ sign would appear. it did not. your example helped me think to put the $ before the %, and it works. thank you! php.net literally shows[i rearranged a little, to fit here; but see how it shows $ will appear: // Using a negative number, $number = -1234.5672; // US national format, using () for neg numbers and 10 digits for left precision setlocale(LC_MONETARY, 'en_US'); echo money_format('%(#10n', $number) . "\n"; // ($ 1,234.57) – dcparham Aug 24 '18 at 21:35

money_format() not showing currency

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