format Productpriceraw variable

[Andy Warner]

SOLVED - see below

Hi folks,

I'm using ProductPriceRaw to return the price of a product for various things. However, the price returned misses off any training 0's e.g. 3.50 become 3.5, 100.00 is 100 etc

Whats the best way to return the following:

£3.50

rather than just 3.5??

i'm assuming PHP, but i'm unable to do what I need to.

on a product, with price £3.50

<actinic:block php="true" >
$var = "<actinic:variable name="ProductPriceRaw" />";
echo $var;
</actinic:block>

this returns 3.5

fine.

now, with PHP I thought that variables were of a type depending on what you do with them...

so,

<actinic:block php="true" >
$var = "<actinic:variable name="ProductPriceRaw" />";
$num = number_format($var, 2, '.', '');
echo $num;
</actinic:block>

I assumed would return 3.50 as well, but it returns 0.00

I can't seem to get ProductPriceRaw out as a number - can someone shed any light on my inability as a PHP programmer please!!

also note, this is a return string for pinterest.com and it seems that pinterest is reading 3.5 as 3 because if you dont have 2 decimals, it truncates the value....

Thanks

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SOLVED: used this:


<actinic:block php="true" >
echo "£" . number_format((<actinic:variable encoding="perl" name="ProductPriceRaw" selectable="false" />), 2);
</actinic:block>

and it worked.
the important bit is setting the Selectable=false bit

from here:
http://community.actinic.com/archive...p/t-46620.html

[NormanRouxel]

ProductPriceRaw is a number but you're making it a string. Try:

<actinic:block php="true" >
  $var = <actinic:variable name="ProductPriceRaw" selectable="false" />;
  $num = number_format($var, 2, '.', '');
  echo $num;
</actinic:block>

[Andy Warner]

I just found that a nano second before you posted - thanks though.

in fact, looking at this, the 'standard' settings, under edit appearance, are

Encoding = NONE
Condition = TRUE
Selectable = TRUE

It looks like the Selectable = FALSE is the only one that needs to be set here.