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Asked: 2026-06-10T12:22:00+00:00

Currently the only global PHP command I know is: <?=$text_items?> This spits: 1 item(s)

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Currently the only global PHP command I know is:

<?=$text_items?>

This spits:

1 item(s) - £318.75

I want to get the 318.75 value so at the moment I am trying a replace but it is not working all smoothly:

$short = $text_items;
$short = str_replace("£", "", $short);
$short = str_replace("&pound;", "", $short);
$short = str_replace("-", "", $short);
$short = str_replace("&ndash;", "", $short);
$short = str_replace(" ", "", $short);
$short = str_replace("-", "", $short);
$short = str_replace("ITEMS", "", $short);
$short = str_replace("(", "", $short);
$short = str_replace(")", "", $short);
$short = str_replace("item(s)", "", $short);
$short = str_replace("ITEM", "", $short);
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  1. Editorial Team
    $total = @floatval(end(explode('£', html_entity_decode($text_items))));
    • html_entity_decode changes &pound; to £
    • end(explode('£' is giving you string after ‘£‘ character
    • finally floatval is valuating string to float.
    • @ is bypassing E_STRICT error which occurs to passing constant in end() function.

    Working example

    Second solution is Regexp:

    preg_match_all('!\d+(?:\.\d+)?!', $text_items, $result);
echo $result[1];

    Working example

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