Hi,
Was wondering if anyone could help me with this little problem I'm having. I'd like to have a comma separator after every 3 digits. E.g "3,000,000". How would i go about this?
Thanks in advance
macneato
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Jump to PostI'm sure this is only useful at the front end. Therefore you should have a piece of code to insert the commas at the front end.
Which would either be a case of converting the number to a string and putting a comma at every three characters or using …
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iamthwee
I'm sure this is only useful at the front end. Therefore you should have a piece of code to insert the commas at the front end.
Which would either be a case of converting the number to a string and putting a comma at every three characters or using a trick with the modulous operator and division.
macneato
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haha... had a feeling you'd be the one to reply, but yet, I'm still glad! ok, so how would i go about inserting the code, cause im currently using a query to fetch the data. Should i use php? if so, any good resources that might help?
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For PHP: http://nl3.php.net/number_format
For MySQL: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/numeric-type-overview.html (at the bottom: DECIMAL)
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