PHP converts a large number to floating point which I need in “long” format to pass to a soap xml api.
((round(time()/(60*15))*60*15)+(30*60))*1000
This gives the result:
1.28E+12
Whereas, what I need is:
"1280495700000"
in order to pass to the api
format it using number_format()
http://php.net/manual/en/function.number-format.php