Removing currency symbol from formatCurrency

Question

I\'m trying to format revenue totals as grabbed from a db, and using php\'s NumberFormatter class, with the formatCurrency method.

However, I do not want to print ou

Answer 1

I came here because for some reason, $formatter->setSymbol(NumberFormatter::CURRENCY_SYMBOL, ''); was being ignored by $formatter->formatCurrency($array['total_revenue'], 'USD');

To resolve this issue, I found out a solution here. https://www.php.net/manual/en/numberformatter.setsymbol.php#124153

this could be obvious to some, but setSymbol(NumberFormatter::CURRENCY_SYMBOL, '') doesn't work for formatCurrency - it will simply be ignored...

use NumberFormatter::CURRENCY and $fmt->format(123); to get a currency value with the symbol specified as CURRENCY_SYMBOL (or INTL_CURRENCY_SYMBOL)

i.e

    $fmt = new NumberFormatter('de_DE', NumberFormatter::CURRENCY);
    $fmt->setSymbol(NumberFormatter::CURRENCY_SYMBOL, '');
    $fmt->setAttribute(NumberFormatter::FRACTION_DIGITS, 2);
    echo $fmt->format(56868993064.7985);
    //Output: 56.868.993.064,80 

Answer 2

A simple regex is a quick fix for your problem. Try;

$actual = $formatter->formatCurrency($array['total_revenue'], 'EUR') . PHP_EOL;
$output = preg_replace( '/[^0-9,"."]/', '', $actual );
echo $output;

Hope this helps

Answer 3

You should use setSymbol() function:

$formatter = new NumberFormatter('en_GB',  NumberFormatter::CURRENCY);
$formatter->setSymbol(NumberFormatter::CURRENCY_SYMBOL, '');
echo $formatter->formatCurrency($array['total_revenue'], 'EUR') . PHP_EOL;