How to add 'th' or 'rd' to end of numbers?

mmoranuk

I want to output numbers from a database and show them as 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc.

I imagine it may be possible using a date function in some bizarre way - but I don't really want to do that.

Surely there must be a simple function for it. I don't know what to call it though so I have found it difficult to search for.

Any help would be great.

vaaaska

http://www.php.net/date

Installer

If you're working with dates, use "date()", otherwise this will work:

function num_suffix($num)
{
    $suffix_arr = array('th', 'st', 'nd', 'rd');
    $last = substr($num, -1);
    if (($last > '3') || ((strlen($num) > 1) && (substr($num, -2, 1) == '1'))) {
        return 'th';
    } else {
        return $suffix_arr[$last];
    }
}

mmoranuk

Excellent - that is exactly what I'm looking for. Thankyou.

I'm not working with dates so I didn't want to go down that route...

I'm suprised there isn't a built-in for it though.