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Functions

numberToText

Wrapper for the NumberFormatter class (removes hyphens, commas, include various 'and').

textToNumber

Converts text (from numberToText) back into numbers, handles any size number.

Usage

You can use these functions to convert between numbers and text:

<?php

$number = 1234567890;

echo $number . "\n\n";

echo numberToText($number) . "\n\n";

echo textToNumber(numberToText($number));

The above code will output:

1234567890

one billion, two hundred and thirty-four million, five hundred and sixty-seven thousand, eight hundred and ninety

1234567890

Options

You can pass an array of options to the numberToText function as the second argument.

If you pass only some options in the array, or no array at all - the default values from the table below are used.

<?php

$number = 1234567890;

echo numberToText(
    $number,
    array(
        'insert_ands' => 'one'
    )
);

Option	Description	Values	Default
locale	Locale used for \NumberFormatter	IANA Language Subtags Registry	'en'
insert_ands	Number of "and" segments to include	'one', 'many', false	'many'
insert_commas	Whether to include commas after thousand/-illian tokens	true, false	true
remove_hyphens	Remove hyphens from text (i.e. "thirty-four")	true, false	false