number_format return the wrong value?

Question

This is my code:

$subTotal = number_format($subTotal, 2);

In $subTotal I had a value like 1,233.00 as a string. The return value was 1.00, which of course is wrong. So I tried something else:

$subTotal = number_format($subTotal, 2, '.', ',');

Result is still the same. How can I make it work with a , as thousand separator?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Remove the commas before you call number_format()

$subTotal = number_format(str_replace(',', '', $subTotal), 2);