PHP Number formatting (st/nd/th)

[Markshall]

This seems very simple but is quite a common and complex task to tackle in PHP, so basically I'm going to show you how to add a suffix to numbers in PHP.

For example,

1 becomes 1st
73 becomes 73rd
34 becomes 34th
782 becomes 782nd

...and so on.

It's simple and can be achieved in 2 lines.

<?php
$number = 782;
$numformat = new NumberFormatter('en_GB', NumberFormatter::ORDINAL);
echo $numformat->format($number);
?>

The outcome is:

782nd

It can be handy for showing things like "You are the X visitor to this website." etc.

Hope it helps.

 

[AssLikeThat]

This is nice, does this include "rd" aswell (e.g. 3rd, 93rd, 943rd) ? If so well done!

 

[Markshall]

This is nice, does this include "rd" aswell (e.g. 3rd, 93rd, 943rd) ? If so well done!

Oh, yep. I forgot about that one, yes it does include that.

 

[AssLikeThat]

Oh, yep. I forgot about that one, yes it does include that.

Alright! Good work then

 

[griimnak]

Really nice tutorial. Could come in handy.

 

[GarettM]

This seems very simple but is quite a common and complex task to tackle in PHP, so basically I'm going to show you how to add a suffix to numbers in PHP.

For example,

1 becomes 1st
34 becomes 34th
782 becomes 782nd

...and so on.

It's simple and can be achieved in 2 lines.

<?php
$number = 782;
$numformat = new NumberFormatter('en_GB', NumberFormatter::ORDINAL);
echo $numformat->format($number);
?>

The outcome is:

782nd

It can be handy for showing things like "You are the X visitor to this website." etc.

Hope it helps.

Some thing to keep in mind that this class requires PHP 5.3 or Higher++

 

[Nehalem]

I thought this would be difficult, with many lines etc. But it's actually kinda easy to understand, lol. Didn't think of it on this way.

Thank you! I suppose this works with all languages?

 

[Markshall]

I thought this would be difficult, with many lines etc. But it's actually kinda easy to understand, lol. Didn't think of it on this way.

Thank you! I suppose this works with all languages?

No, just PHP as it's PHP specific.

 

[Nehalem]

No, just PHP as it's PHP specific.

Not that kind of languages...
Languages as english, german, spanish etc.

 

[Markshall]

Not that kind of languages...
Languages as english, german, spanish etc.

Oh, I understand. I assumed it would, read up on it here

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[Sysode]

Seems pretty simple and something that'll come in handy. Cheers Mark.

 

[Jemz]

Surely there must be a lot less complicated way to do that or is that the only way, just wondering.

 

[Markshall]

Surely there must be a lot less complicated way to do that or is that the only way, just wondering.

Well technically you'd only have to write

$numformat = new NumberFormatter('en_GB', NumberFormatter::ORDINAL);

once, and include it in a global PHP file and then you can just keep doing

$numformat->format(3433);

as much as you want.

I understand not every web server has the NumberFormatter class installed although it is a default PHP library, so I coded a work around version earlier as I moved a website over to a different host and it did not support NumberFormatter.

<?php
function NumFormat($number) {
    $suffixes = array("st" => array(1),
                      "nd" => array(2),
                      "rd" => array(3),
                      "th" => array(4,5,6,7,8,9,0));
 
    if (!is_numeric($number)) return;
 
    foreach ($suffixes as $suffix=>$nums) {
        foreach ($nums as $num) {
            if ($num == (substr($number, -1))) {
                $number .= $suffix;
                break 2;
            }
        }
    }
    return $number;
}

echo 'You are the ' . NumFormat(23) . ' visitor to this website.'; //You are the 23rd visitor to this website.
?>