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@ 2013-12-17T05:59:18Z

<?php

$string_number = '1,512,523.55';
// NOTE: You don't really have to use floatval() here, it's just to prove that it's a legitimate float value.
$number = floatval(str_replace(',', '.', str_replace('.', '', $string_number)));
echo $number;