Get currency symbol in PHP

Question

Let\'s start with simple piece of code to format money with NumberFormatter:

$formatter = new NumberFormatter(\'en_US\', NumberFormatter::CURREN         


        

Answer 1

You can use Symfony Intl Component

Install it via composer using composer require symfony/intl

Then get the HTML symbol with the following

use Symfony\Component\Intl\Currencies;
\Locale::setDefault('en');
$symbol = Currencies::getSymbol('INR'); // => '₹'
echo $symbol;

Answer 2

Cryptic has a good answer, but there is a simpler way to do it:

preg_replace('#[a-z0-9.]*#i', '', $formatter->formatCurrency('0', $currency))

This is a nice simple inline solution that doesn't require declaring another function, however it also doesn't properly handle all cases - i.e. currencies where letters are part of the output. But for distinguishing between e.g. $ and £, it works fine.

Answer 3

I achieved this using https://github.com/symfony/Intl:

Symfony\Component\Intl\Intl::getCurrencyBundle()->getCurrencySymbol('EUR')

returns

'€'.

Answer 4

If you set the locale using this function setlocale("LC_ALL", "es_AR"); You can use localeconv()['currency_symbol'] or localeconv()['int_curr_symbol'] to get the locale currency symbol and the international variation of the currency symbol.

Answer 5

First of all, there is no international global currency symbol table, that anyone on the planet could read and understand.

In each region/country the currency symbols will differ, that`s why you must determine them based on who is reading, using the browser / user locale.

The correct way is as you guessed, using NumberFormatter::CURRENCY_SYMBOL, but you first have to set the appropriate locale like en-US@currency=JPY:

$locale='en-US'; //browser or user locale
$currency='JPY';
$fmt = new NumberFormatter( $locale."@currency=$currency", NumberFormatter::CURRENCY );
$symbol = $fmt->getSymbol(NumberFormatter::CURRENCY_SYMBOL);
header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8;");
echo $symbol;

This way the symbol will be understandable by the user.

For example, $symbol will be:

• Canadian dollar (CAD) : CA$ in USA, CAD in Romania , $CA in Iran
• Iran Rial (IRR): IRR in USA, while in Iran will be ﷼

Answer 6

Zend_Locale::getTranslationList('CurrencySymbol')

Will give you an associative array of 3 letter currency codes to their symbol.

Can then use like this:

$curArr = Zend_Locale::getTranslationList('CurrencySymbol');
echo $curArr['GBP'];