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Asked: 2026-05-11T00:01:58+00:00

I do my php work on my dev box at home, where I’ve got

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I do my php work on my dev box at home, where I’ve got a rudimentary LAMP setup. When I look at my website on my home box, any numbers I echo are automatically truncated to the least required precision. Eg 2 is echoed as 2, 2.2000 is echoed as 2.2.

On the production box, all the numbers are echoed with at least one unnecessary zero, eg 100 becomes 100.0. On both boxes, the PHP version is 5.2.5. Does anyone know offhand if there is a setting I can change which will force PHP to automatically remove any unnecessary zeroes? I don’t want to have to go to every place in my code where I output a number and replace echo with printf or something like that.

Muchas gracias.

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  1. And when you can’t rely on the PHP configuration, don’t forget about number_format() which you can use to define how a number is returned, ex:

    // displays 3.14 as 3 and 4.00 as 4     print number_format($price, 0);  // display 4 as 4.00 and 1234.56 as 1,234.56 aka money style print number_format($int, 2, '.', ',');

    PS: and try to avoid using money_format(), as it won’t work on Windows and some other boxes

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