Format price in the current locale and currency

Question

I use :

$product->getPrice();

to get the unformatted price that I can calculate \"quantity X price\" with ajax.

I want to reformat

Answer 1

I think Google could have answered your question ;-) See http://blog.chapagain.com.np/magento-format-price/.

You can do it with

$formattedPrice = Mage::helper('core')->currency($finalPrice, true, false);