On Dec 19, 2011, at 11:38 AM, Robert Cummings wrote:

> On 11-12-19 11:08 AM, Bastien Koert wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Floyd Resler<fres...@adex-intl.com>  wrote:
>>> In the previous version of PHP we were using, I could pass a string to 
>>> number_format and it would just change it to a 0 without complaint.  With 
>>> 5.3.6 I get an "expects double" error.  I don't suppose there's a way to 
>>> make it work like it used to???  I'm dealing with really old code that 
>>> wasn't very well structured.
>>> 
>>> Thanks!
>>> Floyd
>>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> Could you check it before formatting? Or if the data is coming from
>> the db, force it to 0 if null?
>> 
>> $var = (is_double($number_var)) ? $number_var : 0;
> 
> Or possibly:
> 
> <?php
> 
> number_format( (float)$your_input, 2 );
> 
> ?>
> 
> Cheers,
> Rob.
> 

That worked beautifully!

Thanks!
Floyd


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