Numbers to words

Is there a command within PHP that would convert numbers to words:

echo "1";

# 1 appears on screen

echo command('1');

# one appears on screen --- what would the command be?

Ron

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Re: Numbers to words

I did some searching and found the function on the PHP web site. Ron

/**
* convert long integer into American English words.
* e.g. -12345 -> "minus twelve thousand forty-five"
* Handles negative and positive integers
* on range -Long.MAX_VALUE .. Long.MAX_VALUE;
* It cannot handle Long.MIN_VALUE;
*/

function num2words( $num ){
$ZERO = "zero";
$MINUS = "minus";
$lowName = array(
/* zero is shown as "" since it is never used in combined forms
*/
/* 0 .. 19 */
"", "one", "two", "three", "four", "five",
"six", "seven", "eight", "nine", "ten",
"eleven", "twelve", "thirteen", "fourteen", "fifteen",
"sixteen", "seventeen", "eighteen", "nineteen");

$tys = array(
/* 0, 10, 20, 30 ... 90 */
"", "", "twenty", "thirty", "forty", "fifty",
"sixty", "seventy", "eighty", "ninety");

$groupName = array(
/* We only need up to a quintillion, since a long is about 9 *
10 ^ 18 */
/* American: unit, hundred, thousand, million, billion,
trillion, quadrillion, quintillion */
"", "hundred", "thousand", "million", "billion",
"trillion", "quadrillion", "quintillion");

$divisor = array(
/* How many of this group is needed to form one of the
succeeding group. */
/* American: unit, hundred, thousand, million, billion,
trillion, quadrillion, quintillion */
100, 10, 1000, 1000, 1000, 1000, 1000, 1000) ;

$num = str_replace(",","",$num);
$num = number_format($num,2,'.','');
$cents = substr($num,strlen($num)-2,strlen($num)-1);
$num = (int)$num;

$s = "";

if ( $num == 0 ) $s = $ZERO;
$negative = ($num < 0 );
if ( $negative ) $num = -$num;

// Work least significant digit to most, right to left.
// until high order part is all 0s.
for ( $i=0; $num>0; $i++ ) {
$remdr = (int)($num % $divisor[$i]);
$num = $num / $divisor[$i];
// check for 1100 .. 1999, 2100..2999, ... 5200..5999
// but not 1000..1099, 2000..2099, ...
// Special case written as fifty-nine hundred.
// e.g. thousands digit is 1..5 and hundreds digit is 1..9
// Only when no further higher order.
if ( $i == 1 /* doing hundreds */ && 1 <= $num && $num <= 5 ){
if ( $remdr > 0 ){
$remdr += $num * 10;
$num = 0;
} // end if
} // end if
if ( $remdr == 0 ){
continue;
}
$t = "";
if ( $remdr < 20 ){
$t = $lowName[$remdr];
}
else if ( $remdr < 100 ){
$units = (int)$remdr % 10;
$tens = (int)$remdr / 10;
$t = $tys [$tens];
if ( $units != 0 ){
$t .= "-" . $lowName[$units];
}
}else {
$t = $inWords($remdr);
}
$s = $t . " " . $groupName[$i] . " " . $s;
$num = (int)$num;
} // end for
$s = trim($s);
if ( $negative ){
$s = $MINUS . " " . $s;
}

$s .= " and $cents/100";

return $s;
} // end inWords
?>

On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 22:18 -0500, Ron Piggott (PHP) wrote:
> Is there a command within PHP that would convert numbers to words:
>
> echo "1";
>
> # 1 appears on screen
>
> echo command('1');
>
> # one appears on screen --- what would the command be?
>
> Ron

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