Hi I've only just started messing about in PHP, following tutorials and that. I'm having a little trouble correctly displaying the £ symbol. For example:

The php code:
echo 'Discount: £'.number_format($discount,2).' <br />';

displays something along the lines of:
Discount: £6.78

(I want it say Discount: £6.78)

I'm not sure exactly where to start finding out where the problem is - cos this is my first day of ever using php, or any other web scripting language for that matter! I'm guessing something to do with localisation settings in php.ini or something?

Regards,

James

You may try this out ... ( i've seen that before too, but its been a while )

echo 'Discount:&nbsp;£'.number_format($discount,2).' <br />';

basically you delete any keyboard spaces between discount and the pound symbol and use the HTML entity for the space, which if it doesnt apppear above, its> & n b s p ; < (of course, remove the spaces) Its really easy to memorize too. Every HTML entity ( is that the right name? ) starts with an amperand, and ends with a semicolon. nbsp stands for "Non-Breaking SPace" (or at least i think it does) ... www.w3schools.com is a good place to look up more of these things.

PHP is wonderful and I hope you enjoy it.

php code

<?php

print "Discount: &#163 NUM";

?>

put ur NUM there .put '\&\#163' in the place of above symbol as it is displaying as that symbol(don't include \'s in ur code).This will print ur symbol. Why don't u check prev threads before posting !.There was not similar but same quest in this form ,check if u want.