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Reputation: 11338

Display number as Ordinal number in 'word form' with NumberFormatter PHP class?

If I'd like to display a given number as ordinal number, I'd do it like this:

<?php
    // Needs 'php5-intl' package to be installed on Debian/Ubuntu

    $set_format = numfmt_create( 'en_US', NumberFormatter::ORDINAL );

    // '3' is displayed as '3rd'
    echo numfmt_format( $set_format, 3 );

?>

But if I'd like to display a given number as ordinal number in word form (e.g. first, second, third, etc.) using a built-in PHP function/class like NumberFormatter, how do I do that? Is it possible?

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Upvotes: 6

Views: 6688

Answers (1)

salathe
salathe

Reputation: 51950

You want to be using the SPELLOUT format style, rather thanORDINAL.

The next problem is how to tell the formatter to use the particular ruleset that you are interested in; namely %spellout-ordinal. This can be done by using setTextAttribute().

Example

$formatter = new NumberFormatter('en_US', NumberFormatter::SPELLOUT);
$formatter->setTextAttribute(NumberFormatter::DEFAULT_RULESET,
                             "%spellout-ordinal");

for ($i = 1; $i <= 5; $i++) {
    echo $formatter->format($i) . PHP_EOL;
}

Output

first
second
third
fourth
fifth

Upvotes: 24

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