Get currency symbol in PHP

Question

Let's start with simple piece of code to format money with NumberFormatter:

$formatter = new NumberFormatter('en_US', NumberFormatter::CURRENCY);
echo $formatter->formatCurrency(123456789, 'JPY');

This prints: ¥123,456,789.

This is ok if you want to format money.

But what I want to do is to get currency symbol (e.g. ¥) for given currency ISO 4217 code (e.g. JPY).

My first guess was to try using:

$formatter->getSymbol(NumberFormatter::CURRENCY_SYMBOL);

But that gives currency symbol for locale given in constructor (en_US), $ in my case.

Is there a way to get currency symbol by currency ISO 4217 code in PHP?

Faeroese

The problem is that the currency symbol can appear either before or after the number. What are you using the symbol for? – Chihli

Just do a regex for anything thats not a digit or a comma. Something like /[^0-9,]*/. – Antifederalist

Some of the symbols will be multi-byte so a simple string search won't work very well. – Nothing

I want to avoid regex. Actually, I wanted to fix github.com/symfony/symfony/blob/master/src/Symfony/Component/… and get rid of this regex, I thought PHP supports this. Thanks anyway. – Faeroese

The most useful related resource I have found is this (yes, it's python, but all those functions are available in PHP), which is a bit of a nasty "solution". The root of the problem is that this functionality is dependent on the host OS having the appropriate locale information available - but at the same time I don't see a reason for this not to be possible within those restrictions. – Bet

@Bet I tried and currency_symbol and most of other data is empty for some reason. Thanks. – Faeroese

Warning: NumberFormatter::CURRENCY has been deprecated since PHP 8.3 – Desiderata

Answer 1

I achieved this using https://github.com/symfony/Intl:

Symfony\Component\Intl\Intl::getCurrencyBundle()->getCurrencySymbol('EUR')

returns

'€'.

Symfony version > 4.3

It's worth pointing out for SF4.3 and above this has been deprecated:

/**
 * Returns the bundle containing currency information.
 *
 * @return CurrencyBundleInterface The currency resource bundle
 *
 * @deprecated since Symfony 4.3, to be removed in 5.0. Use {@see Currencies} instead.
 */
public static function getCurrencyBundle(): CurrencyBundleInterface
{

So, instead you can do:

use Symfony\Component\Intl\Currencies;
echo Currencies::getSymbol('AUD'); 

Faeroese

Technically (IMHO) this doesn't actually answer the question, which was about PHP, not Symfony. – Januarius

@Januarius I asked this question, and the goal is to get currency symbol in PHP. Using third party libraries is allowed and encouraged. – Faeroese

Also, what a beautiful syntax. – Housebreak

See Federico Nicolas Motta's answer. – Redhanded

Answer 2

First of all, there is no international global currency symbol table, that anyone on the planet could read and understand.

In each region/country the currency symbols will differ, that`s why you must determine them based on who is reading, using the browser / user locale.

The correct way is as you guessed, using NumberFormatter::CURRENCY_SYMBOL, but you first have to set the appropriate locale like en-US@currency=JPY:

$locale='en-US'; //browser or user locale
$currency='JPY';
$fmt = new NumberFormatter( $locale."@currency=$currency", NumberFormatter::CURRENCY );
$symbol = $fmt->getSymbol(NumberFormatter::CURRENCY_SYMBOL);
header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8;");
echo $symbol;

This way the symbol will be understandable by the user.

For example, $symbol will be:

• Canadian dollar (CAD) : CA$ in USA, CAD in Romania , $CA in Iran
• Iran Rial (IRR): IRR in USA, while in Iran will be ﷼

Wallis

Excellent!! +1. I just wish there was a way to retrieve locale based on currency iso. Something like rlocaleconv(int_curr_symbol, 'JPY') or so! – Laryssa

Answer 3

Since the symbols can be multi-byte I used mb_*() functions to correctly grab the all non-punctuation and non-digit chars which would just leaves the symbol.

function get_currency_symbol($string)
{
    $symbol = '';
    $length = mb_strlen($string, 'utf-8');
    for ($i = 0; $i < $length; $i++)
    {
        $char = mb_substr($string, $i, 1, 'utf-8');
        if (!ctype_digit($char) && !ctype_punct($char))
            $symbol .= $char;
    }
    return $symbol;
}

$format = new NumberFormatter('en_US', NumberFormatter::CURRENCY);
$string = $format->formatCurrency(123456789, 'JPY');
echo get_currency_symbol($string);

Nothing

Currency symbols may be more than one character, e.g., Estonia Kroon = "kr". – Civvies

Currency symbol is not always one char en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_sign. Thanks. – Faeroese

@Faeroese please see updated code which supports multi-char symbols. – Nothing

Yes, but it's hacky, similar to github.com/symfony/symfony/blob/master/src/Symfony/Component/… I will accept it if I find no other solution. Thanks. – Faeroese

Answer 4

If you set the locale using this function setlocale("LC_ALL", "es_AR"); You can use localeconv()['currency_symbol'] or localeconv()['int_curr_symbol'] to get the locale currency symbol and the international variation of the currency symbol.

Tankoos

Answer 5

You can use Symfony Intl Component

Install it via composer using composer require symfony/intl

Then get the HTML symbol with the following

use Symfony\Component\Intl\Currencies;
\Locale::setDefault('en');
$symbol = Currencies::getSymbol('INR'); // => '₹'
echo $symbol;

Heterography

Answer 6

I used this code and this code in php

$CS = new NumberFormatter('en_PH', NumberFormatter::CURRENCY);
$CS = $CS->getSymbol(NumberFormatter::CURRENCY_SYMBOL);

I got a currency symbol of Philippine Peso ₱₱₱₱

I also tried HTML code '&#8369' for Philippine Peso ₱. But it does not working when using in php server php mail specially if you are using an email server.

Try this code.

Interbreed

Answer 7

Cryptic has a good answer, but there is a simpler way to do it:

preg_replace('#[a-z0-9.]*#i', '', $formatter->formatCurrency('0', $currency))

This is a nice simple inline solution that doesn't require declaring another function, however it also doesn't properly handle all cases - i.e. currencies where letters are part of the output. But for distinguishing between e.g. $ and £, it works fine.

Blithe

Answer 8

Zend_Locale::getTranslationList('CurrencySymbol')

Will give you an associative array of 3 letter currency codes to their symbol.

Can then use like this:

$curArr = Zend_Locale::getTranslationList('CurrencySymbol');
echo $curArr['GBP'];

Lenoralenore

Answer 9

Try this variant:

$formatter->getSymbol(NumberFormatter::INTL_CURRENCY_SYMBOL);

Bonds