Format (to currency) php syntax in K2 STORE

Question

I am customizing k2 store front end and I need some help with currency formatting.

My code is:

<span>Tax: <?php echo $item->tax ?></span>
<span>Price without tax: <?php echo $item->price; ?></span>

Don't know why but this code outputs:

Tax: 11
Price without TAX: 50.00000

I would like to output:

Tax: 11,00 EUR
Price without tax: 50,00 EUR

I found some hints for formatting values in PHP but I was not able to implement it in my case. I have a poor PHP knowledge.

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:28

how about using php's money_format function? In this case a similar SO post seems to have an answer

setlocale(LC_MONETARY, 'nl_NL.UTF-8');
$amount = money_format('%(#1n', $amount);
echo $amount;

you could put this into a function like

function to_euro($input){
    setlocale(LC_MONETARY, 'nl_NL.UTF-8');
    return money_format('%(#1n', $input);
}

then use it like

echo to_euro($item->tax);

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