PHP float with 2 decimal places: .00

Question

When I do this typecasting:

(float) \'0.00\';

I get 0. How do I get 0.00 and still have the data type as a float?

Answer 1

When we format any float value, that means we are changing its data type to string. So when we apply the formatting on any amount/float value then it will set with all possible notations like dot, comma, etc. For example

(float)0.00 => (string)'0.00',
(float)10000.56 => (string) '10,000.56'
(float)5000000.20=> (string) '5,000,000.20'

So, logically it's not possible to keep the float datatype after formatting.