Default Number of Decimal Places to Output in PHP

Question

I do my php work on my dev box at home, where I\'ve got a rudimentary LAMP setup. When I look at my website on my home box, any numbers I echo are automatically truncated t

Answer 1

thanks for all the answers - the solution was to cast the return value of the method responsible to a float. I.e. it was doing

return someNumber.' grams';

I just changed it to

return (float)someNumber.' grams';

then PHP truncated any trailing zeroes when required.

Can someone close this?