Question

I’ve had a good look around for any help with my problem so hopefully someone can help me here.

Basically i have a number which is saved into a $price, the number is 15900. Which should translate to 159.00.

Does anyone know how to do this?

Answer 1

Use number_format for this. It will return a string, thereby keeping the decimal places intact, even if they will be .00.

$price = 15900;

// Defaults to a comma as a thousands separator
// but I've set it to an empty string (last argument)
$formatted = number_format( $price / 100, 2, '.', '' );

echo $formatted;

Or better still, maybe have a look at money_format as well, depending on whether internationalized notations and/or currency symbols are of importance as well.