如何格式化数字来定义千位分隔符？

Question

I am a php noob (very) and i got following code:

<?echo getPointsColor($row["fld_points"])?>

Currently the number 1234 in the database is shown as 1,234, but i would like to have it 1234 (without as thousand seperator).

I found:

$english_format_number = number_format($number, 0, '.', '');

This would make it 1234 instead of 1,234

BUT i don't know how to change my code (first code above) to make it work. Can someone post me how the correct codechange would like like?

Info, here is the the function:

function getPointsColor($points_to_color)
{
    $myp = intval($points_to_color);

    if($myp <= 0)
        $myp = "<font color='#a71212\'>".number_format($myp,'\'')."</font>";
    else
        $myp = "<font color='#4ea712\'>".number_format($myp,'\'')."</font>";

    return $myp;
}

Answer 1

You can do it like this:

$english_format_number = number_format($number, 2, '.', ',');

Reference

The third parameter sets the decimal separator, the fourth sets the thousands separator.