PHP Human Number Function

December 5, 2010
This is a pretty simplistic function to convert numbers to "Human Numbers". Outside of the function, you can see an example usage which converts:

1
15
23
1234
12345678


To This:
1st
15th
23rd
1,234th
12,345,678th


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  1. <?PHP
  2. function humanNumber($number=0)
  3.     {
  4.     if (is_numeric($number)) {
  5.         $number = number_format($number);
  6.         SWITCH (substr($number,-1)) {
  7.             CASE 1:
  8.                 $number .= "st";
  9.                 break;
  10.             CASE 2:
  11.                 $number .= "nd";
  12.                 break;
  13.             CASE 3:
  14.                 $number .= "rd";
  15.                 break;
  16.             DEFAULT:
  17.                 $number .= "th";
  18.                 break;
  19.             }
  20.         }
  21.     RETURN $number;
  22.     }
  23.  
  24. echo humanNumber(1) . "<br />" . humanNumber(15) . "<br />" . humanNumber(23) . "<br />" . humanNumber(1234) . "<br />" . humanNumber("12345678");


Because this function is so darn easy to make and use, you can use it for whatever you want, just don't copyright it on me (really, is this worth the $275 to do so???).
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