Sometimes we want words rather than numbers, but it used to be a very onerous task to do this. Since PHP 5.3.0 however, the NumberFormatter Class was introduced, allowing us to do this conversion quickly, with a single line of code.

A good example of the need for a this would be a business web site that says “We’ve been in business for 18 years.” To keep the site current, they’re doing echo ‘We\’ve been in business for ‘ . (date(‘Y’) – 1997) . ‘ years.’; It would look much better to say “We’ve been in business for eighteen years. This bit of code will do that for you.

With the new Number to Words in PHP system at Search Goblin (my little helper script site), you can enter any number and the script will be demonstrated for you, converting your number to plain text. The code is provided there so you can start using this technique on your own site.

Check it out: https://searchgoblin.com/php-numbertowords/