Turn string to dollar equivalant

[hifigrafix]

Greetings.

I'm simply needing to turn a string such as ->

'001059'

To a dollar amount

$10.59

I've managed to lose the leading 0's thanks to trim() - but after trying float and floatval neither work for me.

Any suggestions.

thanks
jw

[hifigrafix]

managed to do this simply by multiply * .01 but there has to be a more professional way of doing this.

[mkdrums]

$number_f  = 1059 * .01;
echo "$".number_format($number_f, 2, '.', ',');

//prints $10.59

Not really sure if this helps you at all. It just makes the formatting clean.

[hifigrafix]

thanks mk

[krt]

Or money_format(), exactly for this purpose:
http://php.net/function.money-format