Unformat money when parsing in PHP

Question

Is there a way to get the float value of a string like this: 75,25 €, other than parsefloat(str_replace(',', '.', $var))?

I want this to be dependent on the current site language, and sometimes the comma could be replaced by dot.

Answer 1

You can use

• NumberFormatter::parseCurrency - Parse a currency number

Example from Manual:

$formatter = new NumberFormatter('de_DE', NumberFormatter::CURRENCY);
var_dump($formatter->parseCurrency("75,25 €", $curr));

gives: float(75.25)

Note that the intl extension is not enabled by default. Please refer to the Installation Instructions.