setlocale to fr-FR in PHP and number formatting
- by bateman_ap
Hi, I am trying to create a French version of one of my sites. I have set setlocale(LC_ALL, 'fr_FR'); at the top of my page, and using strftime I am displaying dates correctly in the French style.
However I am having some problems with a number. Part of the page uses data I am getting from a Web Service. I am assigning a returned value to a var like this:
$overallRating = $returnArray['Overall'];
I am then using the following code later to format it to 1 decimal place
number_format($overallRating,1)
In the English version the overallRating value might be 7.5 and returns a value such as 7.5 (the reason for running it through the number_format is if it returns 7 I want it to display 7.0)
However in the French version if I print out the raw $overallRating value I get 7,5 which looks like it has translated it into french. This would be fine but if I run it through number_format I get the error:
Notice: A non well formed numeric value encountered in /sites/index.php on line 250
Line 250 is the number_format line
I presume the translation to 7,5 is messing it up, but not sure how to solve this...
Using PHP 5.3 in case there is anything new that helps me