Extension:FormatNum

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FormatNum Release status: unmaintained
Implementation	Parser function
Description	Passes number formatting instruction to PHP function number_format
Author(s)	Daniel Schuba (DaSchtalk)
Latest version	0.6.2 (2014-11-07)
License	GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
Download	GitHub: project page git repository URL [help] commit history Note: No localisation updates are provided by translatewiki.net . README
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Extension FormatNum makes it easier to format numbers in the style you want, independent of language settings. For input "english" format is used with point as decimal separator.

Usage

• {{#formatnum:number|number of decimals|decimal separator|thousand separator|old thousand separator}}
• {{#formatnum:number|decs=number of decimals|dsep=decimal separator|tsep=thousand separator|otsep=old thousand separator|format=DIN or ISO|mint=minimal number to separate thousands}}

• otsep: thousands separator in the number given, that will be removed. For example when having a number like 123.456.789,123 and setting otsep=. will remove all points from the number before converting.
• mint: the minimal number given to separate thousands. For example when setting to 4 the number 1234 will remain as is and 12345 will be separated to 12 345.

Examples

{{#formatnum: 2300.123|2|,|_}}

result: 2 300,12

{{#formatnum: 2300.123|2|.|,}}

result: 2,300.12

{{#formatnum: 2300.123|2}}

result: 2,300.12

{{#formatnum: 2300.123|2|,|t}}

result: 2 300,12

As thousand separator the following parameters can be also used

• n – will be  
• t – will be  

Repository

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Download

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Download using Git

git clone https://github.com/DaSchTour/FormatNum.git

Installation

Download the files from GitHub. Put them in /extensions/FormatNum and add the following to your LocalSettings.php

require_once( "$IP/extensions/FormatNum/FormatNum.php" );

Use Example

On Wikipedia formatting of numbers is done with complex templates like this. With the #formatnum parser this would be a lot easier.

See also

• Extension:NumberFormat
• Bugzilla:40422 - review and deployment request

Links

• description of number_format at php.net