PHP money_format(); £ sign not GBP

Question

I cannot work out how to get the currency symbol?

At the moment I am using

setlocale(LC_MONETARY, 'en_GB');
money_format('%i', 1000);

Which give me the output

GBP1,000

But I want

£1,000

I have checked out the PHP manual but it isn't that helpful.

Any ideas?

Maybe this will help: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6060008/money-format-showing — Tim, Jan 26 '12 at 14:18
@Tim That just tells you to put £ instead of £ but I can actually get £ to display. It just shows GBP in it's place. Thanks though :) — Max Rose-Collins, Jan 26 '12 at 14:20
@Shiplu Your machine probably has no locale files installed for "en_GB". If it's a Debian distro, you can edit `/etc/locale.gen`. — Linus Kleen, Jan 26 '12 at 14:35
Basically, Ubuntu *is* Debian (*ducks*). It's the same approach: edit `/etc/locale.gen` and then execute `localegen` (both as root). — Linus Kleen, Jan 26 '12 at 15:07

SERPRO · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-26T14:30:24.213

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Have you tried this?

setlocale(LC_MONETARY, 'en_GB');
utf8_encode(money_format('%n', 1000));

edited Jan 26 '12 at 14:30

answered Jan 26 '12 at 14:22

SERPRO

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This is close I think, I am now getting a diamond with a ? in the middle. I have my charset as utf-8 which is weird :S – Max Rose-Collins Jan 26 '12 at 14:25
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just add utf8_encode(money_format('%n', 1000)); and you will see the symbol... :) – SERPRO Jan 26 '12 at 14:26
P.s. you should edit your answer to include the utf8_encode bit :) – Max Rose-Collins Jan 26 '12 at 14:29

Diego Pino · Answer 2 · 2015-09-16T08:11:41.460

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This worked for me:

setlocale(LC_MONETARY, 'en_GB.UTF-8');
money_format('%n', 1000);

It's similar to the selected solution, however it didn't work for me. Why? The reason is that the locale en_GB was not defined in my system, only en_GB.UTF-8:

$ locale -a | grep "en_GB"
en_GB.utf8

In addition, by using the UTF-8 codeset directly, the extra call to utf8_encode can be saved.

edited Sep 16 '15 at 08:11

answered Dec 20 '12 at 18:13

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Much more flexible than the selected answer, as this stops the need to rewrite functions if using different localitys. – rickyduck Mar 21 '13 at 13:34

Daniel Howard · Answer 3 · 2018-06-20T08:37:56.570

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Here's a solution for those of you, like me, who think PHP's money_format is horrible.

$formatted = '£' . number_format( (float) $amount, 2, '.', ',' );

edited Jun 20 '18 at 08:37

answered Feb 08 '17 at 10:40

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 26 '20 at 12:23

I know this is an old thread but the way I found without using money_format which is now deprecated

$fmt = numfmt_create( 'en_GB', NumberFormatter::CURRENCY );
$formattedAmount = numfmt_format_currency($fmt, 1000, "GBP");
echo $formattedAmount;

will show £1,000.00

If you need to remove the .00 from the end then you could use

substr(formattedAmount, 0, -3);

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 23 '15 at 09:31

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None of the soloutions above worked for me. They were printing an 'A' before the £ sign. Instead building on Aidan and Diegos soloutions I have the following:

setlocale(LC_MONETARY, 'en_GB.UTF-8');
echo (money_format('%n', $bagel->Price));

answered Jan 23 '15 at 09:31

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score -1 · Answer 6 · answered Jan 26 '12 at 14:19

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An easy solution could be te replace GBP with & pound ; (without the spaces) after the money_format.

answered Jan 26 '12 at 14:19

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On the php manual they show you can use the $ sign so you must be able to get the £ as you can set your location to GB – Max Rose-Collins Jan 26 '12 at 14:22
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Have you tried using `setlocale(LC_MONETARY, 'en_GB.UTF-8');`. It was sugested on the website @tim placed as a comment. – Aidan Jan 26 '12 at 14:26

score -6 · Answer 7 · answered Jan 26 '12 at 14:23

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Use str_replace() function is an option.

£ - British Pound - £ (163)

// Search for the GBP in your string (subject) then replace for the symbol code
$search = "GBP";
$replace = "&pound;";
$subject = "GBP";
echo str_replace($search, $replace, $subject);

answered Jan 26 '12 at 14:23

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This only makes sense for displaying it on a HTML page – Robin Kanters Dec 18 '15 at 13:00

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