# PHP: Formating numeric strings

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-formating-numeric-strings/141325>\
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**Created:** [March 18, 2005, 9:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-formating-numeric-strings/141325 "2005-03-18T21:38:56Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 9:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-formating-numeric-strings/141325/1 "2005-03-18T21:38:56Z")

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Im pulling data from an SQL table, and have an integer column that contains numbers over 1,000. But in the integer collumn you only have the numeric value 1000, not with a comma (1,000). How can I have php input the comma’s automatically when the value is echo’ed to HTML? :h: