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Claudia Kosny

Thursday 09 November 2006 1:35:38 am

Hi there

is there a way to format a number similar to PHP's number_format?
I want to make sure that a certain number is always displayed with two decimals, a dot as decimal point and no thousand separator no matter what the locale is.
The si operator requires a unit which I don't want and the l10n operator formats according to the locale as far as I know.

I can certainly write an extension which implements the number_format function of PHP in eZ but I was wondering whether this is possible using existing eZ operators.

Claudia

Xavier Dutoit

Thursday 09 November 2006 1:52:13 am

Hi Claudia,

The default way of adding a php function works only if you have one parameter to this function. I suppose that's not the case for you. I'm afraid it means creating an extension to add this template.

See this doc:

http://ez.no/products/ez_publish/documentation/development/extensions/template_operator

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Claudia Kosny

Thursday 09 November 2006 2:46:48 am

Hi Xavier

Writing my own extension for this is no problem at all, actually I have done so already meanwhile. I just was wondering whether there is a way to do it using existing eZfunctions as I don't want to add more custom code than necessary.

Claudia

Xavier Dutoit

Thursday 09 November 2006 4:31:04 am

Hi,

You can add php functions as template function from within the template.ini.append

[PHP]
# A list with php functions and their equivelant template operator names
# Giving the operators a different name from the PHP functions
# are recommended, that way you ensure that all operators follow
# the same naming guidelines. It also means that you can change the
# php function later on without doing template changes.
PHPOperatorList[]
PHPOperatorList[urlencode]=urlencode

The only problem is that you can then only use them as $blabla|urlencode() . If the php function you plan to use needs more than one parameter, then you need to write an extension.

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Xavier Dutoit

Thursday 09 November 2006 4:34:12 am

BTW, could you add your function in the contrib ?

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