php - how to reformat a number with commas

Question

I have a line of code that get a count of rows in my table and then display the count. In this case it display the number of downloads.

Right now the count is very small but when it gets larger ( great than 1000) I would like to format it to display with commas in the correct spots example:

1,000

100,000

1,000,000

Or perhaps with a . 1.000 1.000.000

What is the simplest way to do this?

Answer 1

You can use the number_format() function:

$str = number_format($number);

To use "." instead of ",":

$str = number_format($number, 0, ',', '.');