Format price in the current locale and currency

Question

I use :

$product->getPrice(); 

to get the unformatted price that I can calculate "quantity X price" with ajax.

I want to reformat the total in the current locale and currency. How can I do that?

Answer 1

I think Google could have answered your question ;-) See http://blog.chapagain.com.np/magento-format-price/.

You can do it with

$formattedPrice = Mage::helper('core')->currency($finalPrice, true, false); 

Answer 2

$formattedPrice = Mage::helper('core')->currency($_finalPrice,true,false);