Currency formatting

Currency formatting

doug_hale_jrdoug_hale_jr Posts: 22Questions: 0Answers: 0
edited March 2009 in General
Is anyone aware of a way to format a column as currency with commas and $ and still allow for totalling in the footer?

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  • allanallan Posts: 63,602Questions: 1Answers: 10,486 Site admin
    Hi,

    What you will probably need to do is parse the your currency information on each callback. As you will be able to see on the footer callback demo ( http://www.datatables.net/examples/example_footer_callback.html ) you will that I loop over the visible data (with the line: "iPageMarket += aaData[ aiDisplay[i] ][4]*1;") summing it up. What you could do is something like:

    iTotal += aaData[ aiDisplay[i] ][4].replace(/[$,]/g, "") * 1;

    This will take the information from the table (change the column as you require), remove the $ and commas and then "cast" the string as a number (adding it to the result).

    Hope this helps!

    Allan
  • doug_hale_jrdoug_hale_jr Posts: 22Questions: 0Answers: 0
    Hey Allan!

    Nice re-write of the site and thanks for the forums!!

    For the moment, I formatted one column with $ and commas and used a second column (hidden) that I used for getting the total. But your solution sounds better so I'll be changing my code.

    Thanks again!!!
    Doug
  • allanallan Posts: 63,602Questions: 1Answers: 10,486 Site admin
    Hi Doug,

    Glad to hear that has done the trick! Thanks for the complements on the site!

    Allan
  • naspinskinaspinski Posts: 13Questions: 0Answers: 0
    One method I use it to render the table with straight integers (could use doubles, etc.) and use the "fnDrawCallback" to format the currency clientside each time:

    "fnDrawCallback": function() {
    $("td[id*='class_that_has_currrency_in_it']").each(function() {
    $(this).html(formatCurrency($(this).html()));
    });
    }

    and I grabbed this formatCurrency funciton from somehwere?

    function formatCurrency(num) {
    num = num.toString().replace(/\$|\,/g, '');
    if (isNaN(num))
    num = "0";
    sign = (num == (num = Math.abs(num)));
    num = Math.floor(num * 100 + 0.50000000001);
    cents = num % 100;
    num = Math.floor(num / 100).toString();
    if (cents < 10)
    cents = "0" + cents;
    for (var i = 0; i < Math.floor((num.length - (1 + i)) / 3); i++)
    num = num.substring(0, num.length - (4 * i + 3)) + ',' + num.substring(num.length - (4 * i + 3));
    return ((sign) ? '' : '-') + '$' + num + '.' + cents;
    }
  • allanallan Posts: 63,602Questions: 1Answers: 10,486 Site admin
    Worth nothing that fnRender can also be used to do this:

    [code]
    $(document).ready(function() {
    $('#example').dataTable( {
    aoColumns: [
    null,
    null,
    null,
    null,
    {
    fnRender: function ( o ) {
    return "$"+o.aData[ o.iDataColumn ];
    },
    bUseRendered: false
    ]
    } );
    } );
    [/code]

    Allan
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