[FX.php List] Formatting numbers in FX.php

[Andrew Denman]

Hello Bob,

For formatting I just use the PHP functions:

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.number-format.php
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.money-format.php

I don't think FX.php returns the formatting type used on a particular field
on a layout.  It would be nice if I'm wrong though (or if new FX.php
features made me wrong... I could live with that too ;).

Andrew Denman

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[mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of Bob Patin
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 12:08 PM
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Subject: [FX.php List] Formatting numbers in FX.php

Hi list,

Is there a way to get FX.php to return the formatting that FileMaker  
uses with numbers? In CDML, I could just add ",format" to a tag to  
have a number displayed using the same formatting as the database  
itself.

For example, with a number like 12000, I'd like it to display as  
"12,000"; I'm hoping not to have to write a calc script to insert  
commas or dollar signs.

Does such a beast exist? Failing that, does anyone have a calc  
they've already done that will format my number with thousands  
separators?

Thanks a lot,

Bob Patin
Longterm Solutions
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