PHP to round up to the 2nd decimal place

Question

By calculating areas I have a number which I need to display in a strange way.

Always display 2 decimal places. Always round up the 2nd decimal place if the 3rd+ de

Answer 1

To always round up you will want to use something like this:

$number = 0.8701;

echo ceil($number*100)/100;

// = 0.88

Answer 2

You can use 2 functions:

• round() - docs here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.round.php
• number_format() - docs here: http://ro1.php.net/number_format

I've used both with success, and depending on what you're doing with the result, you may chose either of the above functions.

Later edit: If you want to only round up, you can use ceil() - http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ceil.php + number format or round

echo round(ceil($number*100)/100,2);

As another user suggested earlier