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Jay
Jay

Reputation: 73

Formating Comment Count in WordPress with PHP

I have the following php I use in Wordpress on the frontend to display how many total comments my blog has. So say for example would render to display something to this effect: 1,265,788

<?php
$comments_count = wp_count_comments();
echo number_format($comments_count->total_comments);
?>

What I would like to do is format the number better. So instead of it saying I have 1,265,788 comments, it will say I have 1,265M comments.

I tried the following code as recommended by another post, but does not work either. It echo's the full number. 

<?php
$comments_count = wp_count_comments();
if ($comments_count->total_comments < 1000000) {
    // Anything less than a million
    $n_format = number_format($comments_count->total_comments);
    echo $n_format;
} else if ($comments_count->total_comments < 1000000000) {
    // Anything less than a billion
    $n_format = number_format($comments_count->total_comments / 1000000, 3) . 'M';
    echo $n_format;
} else {
    // At least a billion
    $n_format = number_format($comments_count->total_comments / 1000000000, 3) . 'B';
    echo $n_format;
}
?>

So no, this is not a duplicate question. Previous answers are of absolute no help to me. I tried exactly like the answers said and the output I get is the full number like the original top code gives me.

Anyone have an idea how I can achieve this and can show me a sample please.

Thank you!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 284

Answers (1)

Manoj Yadav
Manoj Yadav

Reputation: 6612

Actually above code is working fine and output is 1.266M

Hard coded example: 

$number = 1265788;
if ($number < 1000000) {
    // Anything less than a million
    $n_format = number_format($number);
    echo $n_format;
} else if ($number < 1000000000) {
    // Anything less than a billion
    $n_format = number_format($number / 1000000, 3) . 'M';
    echo $n_format;
} else {
    // At least a billion
    $n_format = number_format($number / 1000000000, 3) . 'B';
    echo $n_format;
}

Dynamic:

$comments_count = wp_count_comments();
$number = $comments_count->total_comments;
if ($number < 1000000) {
    // Anything less than a million
    $n_format = number_format($number);
    echo $n_format;
} else if ($number < 1000000000) {
    // Anything less than a billion
    $n_format = number_format($number / 1000000, 3) . 'M';
    echo $n_format;
} else {
    // At least a billion
    $n_format = number_format($number / 1000000000, 3) . 'B';
    echo $n_format;
}

Upvotes: 1

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