# Call to a member function format() on boolean,cakephp 3

**URL:** <https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/call-to-a-member-function-format-on-boolean-cakephp-3/4801>\
**Category:** Need Help\
**Created:** [August 24, 2018, 2:55pm UTC](https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/call-to-a-member-function-format-on-boolean-cakephp-3/4801 "2018-08-24T14:55:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![albert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@albert](https://discourse.cakephp.org/u/albert)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 2:55pm UTC](https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/call-to-a-member-function-format-on-boolean-cakephp-3/4801/1 "2018-08-24T14:55:09Z")

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Hello, I receive this error when I use number, idea, greetings.

# Call to a member function format() on boolean

echo $this-\>Number-\>format(‘123456.7890’, [  
‘places’ =\> 2,  
‘before’ =\> '¥ ‘,  
‘after’ =\> ’ !’  
]);

echo $this-\>Number-\>currency(41455,“EUR”);

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**Author:** ![Graziel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@Graziel](https://discourse.cakephp.org/u/Graziel)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 4:59pm UTC](https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/call-to-a-member-function-format-on-boolean-cakephp-3/4801/2 "2018-08-24T16:59:31Z")

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it sound like you dont have Number helper loaded  
[https://book.cakephp.org/3.0/en/views/helpers.html#configuring-helpers](https://book.cakephp.org/3.0/en/views/helpers.html#configuring-helpers)  
it should be loaded automatically but maybe someone changed it in your app