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misteroneill on 08/31/09


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Show Number Ordinals

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This function takes a number and appends an ordinal suffix. By default, it uses the HTML tag around the suffix, but passing a Boolean false for the second parameter will not.

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  1. function show_ordinal($num, $html = true) {
  2.     $the_num = (string) $num;
  3.     $last_digit = substr($the_num, -1, 1);
  4.     switch($last_digit) {
  5.         case "1":
  6.             $the_num .= ($html) ? '<sup>st</sup>' : 'st';
  7.             break;
  8.         case "2":
  9.             $the_num .= ($html) ? '<sup>nd</sup>' : 'nd';
  10.             break;
  11.         case "3":
  12.             $the_num .= ($html) ? '<sup>rd</sup>' : 'rd';
  13.             break;
  14.         default:
  15.             $the_num .= ($html) ? '<sup>th</sup>' : 'th';
  16.     }
  17.     return $the_num;
  18. }

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