Integer to ordinal string [#324937]

Useful to create a title while iterating an array, or referencing the nth entity in some text.

1 -> 1st
2 -> 2nd
31 -> 31st

function nth($number) {
  if ($number % 10 == 1) {
    return $number.'st';
  } elseif ($number % 10 == 2) {
    return $number.'nd';
  } else {
    return $number.'th';
  }
}

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Comment #1

sradomski commented 23 October 2008 at 00:20

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Hehe - Forgot the 3rd case!

function nth($number) {
  if ($number % 10 == 1) {
    return $number.'st';
  } elseif ($number % 10 == 2) {
    return $number.'nd';
  } elseif ($number % 10 == 3) {
    return $number.'rd';
  } else {
    return $number.'th';
  }
}

d'oh