PHP remove trailing and leading zeros
12 May 2010I couldn’t find a nice number clean function for php for remove leading and 
trailing zeros (and trailing decimal points) so hear is function number_clean, enjoy :)
<?php
/*
* Function: number_clean
* Purpose: Remove trailing and leading zeros - just to return cleaner number
*/ 
public function number_clean($num){ 
  //remove zeros from end of number ie. 140.00000 becomes 140.
  $clean = rtrim($num, '0');
  //remove zeros from front of number ie. 0.33 becomes .33
  $clean = ltrim($clean, '0');
  //remove decimal point if an integer ie. 140. becomes 140
  $clean = rtrim($clean, '.');
  return $clean;
}
?>
