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

Unformatted and formatted:

$price = $product->getPrice();
$formatted = Mage::helper('core')->currency($price, true, false);

Or use:

Mage::helper('core')->formatPrice($price, true);