PHP Number Examples

Number in PHP belongs to one of the following primitive data types: Integer, Floating point number or Float.

Round a number up to nearest 5

$roundedNumber = (ceil($number)%10 === 0) ? ceil($number) : ceil($number/5)*5;
$roundedNumber = (floor($number)%10 === 0) ? floor($number) : floor($number/5)*5;

Round a number up to nearest 10

$roundedNumber = round($number, -1, PHP_ROUND_HALF_UP);
$roundedNumber = round($number, -1, PHP_ROUND_HALF_DOWN);
$roundedNumber = ceil($number / 10) * 10;
$roundedNumber = floor($number / 10) * 10;

Show a number to two decimal places and grouped thousand

$number = "1249865.6555";
echo number_format($number, 2, '.', '');
//output: 1249865.66
echo number_format($number, 2, '.', ',');
//output: 1,249,865.66

Convert String to Integer and Float

$string = '546.2121SomeCharacters';
$int = intval($string);
$float = floatval($string);

$string = "522.34";
$int = (int) $string;
$float = (float) $string;