localize ordinal numbers

Question

Hi,

for ($rank=0; $rank<100; $rank++)
{
  printf("Your rank: %d%s", $rank, $suffix);
}

Is there exist a gettext function to localize $suffix in the general case (any language)?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Not that I know of, but you can use NumberFormatter

$nf = new NumberFormatter('en_US', NumberFormatter::ORDINAL);
print $nf->format(123); // prints 123rd

Source:

• Internationalization in PHP 5.3