Question

Im trying to format the output of numbers in php. I have an amount of posts that show up, and next to each user is the total of posts. But it shows that actual amount, i want it to show it in a shorter format, actually, just like they do here at SO with reputation

any ideas?

Answer 1

<?
$numbers = array(100,1000,15141,3421);


function format_number($number) {
    if($number >= 1000) {
       return $number/1000 . "k";   // NB: you will want to round this
    }
    else {
        return $number;
    }
}


foreach($numbers as $number) {
    echo $number . " : " . format_number($number);
    echo "\n";
}