writing long numbers with delimiters

**Rami Elomaa** · Mar 18 '07, 02:25 PM

Re: writing long numbers with delimiters

Ja NE kirjoitti:

for no particular reason at this very moment, I would like to echo
numebrs of seconds since my site is born. or since I'm born. this isn't
problem ($diff = time() - mktime($beginin g) but it looks ugly on screen:
>
using this two functions substr(chunk_sp lit($diff, 3, '.'), 0, -1);
I'm lucky with my site: 277142273 seconds = 277.142.273
but with myself: 1257865147 seconds = 125.786.514.7
>
so I would like to echo 1.257.865.167 ...can someone help me with this?
>
(I know I have seen it somewhere before, but now I can't find where)
thank you! :)
>

number_format()

PHP: number_format - Manual

http://fi2.php.net/manual/en/function.number-format.php

Format a number with grouped thousands

By thw way, if you wanted to use chunk_split and substr, you should
first reverse the string, then chunksplit it, then reverse again to get
correct separation for the numbers. ;)

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**Tyrone Slothrop** · Mar 18 '07, 02:25 PM

Re: writing long numbers with delimiters

On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 15:02:10 +0100, hidden@mail.zz (Ja NE) wrote:

>for no particular reason at this very moment, I would like to echo
>numebrs of seconds since my site is born. or since I'm born. this isn't
>problem ($diff = time() - mktime($beginin g) but it looks ugly on screen:
>
>using this two functions substr(chunk_sp lit($diff, 3, '.'), 0, -1);
>I'm lucky with my site: 277142273 seconds = 277.142.273
>but with myself: 1257865147 seconds = 125.786.514.7
>
>so I would like to echo 1.257.865.167 ...can someone help me with this?
>
>(I know I have seen it somewhere before, but now I can't find where)
>thank you! :)
>
>--
>Ja NE
>http://fotozine.org/?omen=janimir

number_format() is what you are looking for.