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Hello,
in a blade view, I am showing currency to the user. Like this:
{{$mobility->travelcosts}}<br>
and result comes with this format: 11250.00 I would really like the format in this way 11.250,00
Is there a way to achieve this?
Thank you
assuming the value in the database is a decimal format (you gave no clue) then you can use php number format functions
http://php.net/manual/en/function.number-format.php
{{ number_format($mobility->travelcosts, 2, ',', '.') }}
there are also currency format methods linked on the same page
For currency format, you should try this one. I did not use it but hope it works as you needed.
https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.money-format.php
Also for using in your blade file you can try this method.
You can add a custom Blade directive in the boot() method in your AppServiceProvider file.
Blade::directive('money', function ($amount) { return ""; });
// in blade @money($yourVariable)
Thanks for this!
To expand on @gopalkumar315:
In app\Providers\AppServiceProvider.php
Add
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Blade;
at the top and then
Blade::directive('money', function ($amount) {
return "<?php echo '$' . number_format($amount, 2); ?>";
});
Inside the boot() method. Use directive @money() in your blade templates.
@blackdeer Love this. If you are using negative numbers with parenthesis, I did something like this:
Blade::directive('currency', function ($amount) {
return "<?php echo ($amount < 0) ? str_replace('-', '', '($' . number_format($amount, 2) .')') : '$' . number_format($amount, 2) ?>";
});
Yeah, Thanks to expand.
money_format is deprecated on PHP 7.4, so I'd not use this :-)
And this is a two year old thread, so thanks.
I've found this to be a nice all-around currency library: https://github.com/akaunting/laravel-money
laravel-money, which @claybitner has posted, has its own peculiarities.
https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.money-format.php is deprecated since PHP 7.4 but is replaced by https://www.php.net/manual/en/numberformatter.formatcurrency.php
So I've written a simple helper function.
Create the file app/Helpers/helpers.php.
My simple function:
<?php
/**
* Format an amount to the given currency
*
* @return response()
*/
if (! function_exists('formatCurrency')) {
function formatCurrency($amount, $currency)
{
$fmt = new NumberFormatter( app()->getLocale(), NumberFormatter::CURRENCY );
return $fmt->formatCurrency($amount, $currency);
}
}
an in the composer.json add the "files" Part to autoload
"autoload": {
"psr-4": {
"App\": "app/",
"Database\Factories\": "database/factories/",
"Database\Seeders\": "database/seeders/"
},
"files": [
"app/Helpers/helpers.php"
]
},
Run composer dump-autoload once and you can use your formatCurrency helper function.
Works for me and maybe it helps someone.
To add a fresh take on this, I personally use a Blade component for rendering monetary amounts. The implementation was stolen inspired by Cashier:
namespace App\View\Components;
use Illuminate\Support\Str;
use Illuminate\View\Component;
use Money\Currencies\ISOCurrencies;
use Money\Currency;
use Money\Formatter\IntlMoneyFormatter;
use Money\Money;
use NumberFormatter;
class FormatAmount extends Component
{
public $amount;
public $currency;
public $locale;
public function __construct(int $amount, string $currency, string $locale = null)
{
$this->amount = $amount;
$this->currency = $currency;
$this->locale = $locale ?? app()->getLocale();
}
public function render()
{
$money = new Money($this->amount, new Currency(Str::upper($this->currency)));
$numberFormatter = new NumberFormatter($this->locale, NumberFormatter::CURRENCY);
$moneyFormatter = new IntlMoneyFormatter($numberFormatter, new ISOCurrencies());
return $moneyFormatter->format($money);
}
}
You can then print formatted currencies in your Blade views like this:
<p>
The price is:
<x-format-amount amount="925" currency="usd" />
</p>
Or if you have say, a Product model with price and currency attributes:
<p>
The price is:
<x-format-amount :amount="$product->price" :currency="$product->currency" />
</p>
@martinbean Works like a charm. thank you for this !
@martinbean now where was this example when I posted my question about class components? ;)
@martinbean The Money lib expects that you always pass a cents based amount. So if you store your values as decimal or float you'll need to convert it, just multiply by a hundred. Which also means that for some specific applications that needs a higher precision you should avoid this lib.
@brunofunnie It’s a good job I do store monetary values in as an integer in its lowest denominator, then. But thanks for creating an account and replying to a thread that was created over six years ago.
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