Question

I have a number that is a string with a value of “53 MILLION”.

            $number="53 MILLION";

I want this number to be 53,000,000. How would go about doing this? I tried using the number_format function but with no luck.

Thanks in advance!

$number="53 MILLION";

     $number= str_replace($number, "MILLION", "000,000");

    echo $number; //000,000 instead of 53,000,000

Answer 1

Building on what Jesus said, a simple function to construct these numbers would be:

function declare_number($number_string){
    $find_replace = array(
        ' HUNDRED'  =>  '00',
        ' THOUSAND' =>  ',000',
        ' MILLION'  =>  ',000,000',
        ' BILLION'  =>  ',000,000,000'
    );
    return str_ireplace(array_keys($find_replace),$find_replace,$number_string);
}

This would also be able to convert 8 hundred thousand = 800,000 etc.