PHP NumberFormatter: Locales, Currencies, Numbers to Letters

I want to show/remind you of a not-so-widely used PHP class called NumberFormatter, and demonstrate to you its main capabilities.

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[macdanson]

Numbers to Letters is what I have always wanted of these. Thank you

[ifoxash]

this is a very interesting topic, I think it will be very helpful in my projects.
thanks Povilas

[AndyZervas]

Very interesting. Looking forward to use it. Maybe % would be useful at a sports - statistics project or sales - commission or discount calculation. Gives me some ideas.

[devKazuto]

I'm using the NumberFormatter in my laravel-money package to format numbers for different locales.

[lordbyron]

Thanks, I was searching for someting like that!

[mc]

useful stuff... have used it for ordinal numbers formating (1st, 2nd...)
the only downside is that you need php intl installed on your server/docker, otherwise you'll get "unknown class NumberFormatter" error... and I keep forgetting that 🙂

[TobiasOlssonHovby]

I've never used ut, but i will start doing it from now.

[torchok]

It's really funny
Because today I implemented new functionality based on this class.
I display different currency format based on locale and currency

[DragosBurciu]

Honestly, i haven't used it... but i can see some usefull use cases

[travholt]

Nice to know! Regarding percentages, I'm guessing there might be locale differences in the way they are written also? And anyway you will get the correct separators.

[JNL]

It could be interesting to use a function like you made to show numbers and currencies based on a setting for each user. Define the locale globally based on the logged in user and then call the function without the locale.

[natenatters]

Interesting! Do you ever implement your own NumberFormatter for other common numeric functions? Similar to the Laravel Str helper class.

[mohdyuzi]

how do i spellout currency value? for example i have USD 3, 500.50, i want to echo "USD three thousand five hundred and fifty cent". can i do that using numberformatter?

[EL_PANDA_]

Hi,
Can I use another scaffolding for laravel nova. Keep the nova auth for admin and use fortify for users for instance.
Or maybe multiple guards?

[sanoopsahadevan]

Hi sir, this video is very helpful, recently I faced an issue with money format, now I get a perfect solution for it.
Sir can you made video about overriding vendor classes/package classes

[Voltra_]

Weird that € is not placed on the right, I guess it still uses the locales currency placement rule

[jcc]

This may be useful when i get to this part of my app. beats researching the formats myself.

Are you aware of any packages or methods that would help with phone number or address formats for various countries?

[fahnleindieselschweif]

I am using it in a helper function for blade outputs. Is there also a way for using it with numbers based on 2? (1024B = 1kB) Therfore I pasted a Stackoverflow solution.

[Rivera-D]

Hi Sir, after watch this video, I find out to the documentation of named parameter. Then I found that order of the variables are passed does not matter, different with your explain in the video. I tried it and the order does not matter like the doc said. Is there specific condition why order is still important or no? Thanks for the great explanation Sir.

[strilezkijslawa]

Very helpful video. Is NumberFormatter available only in php 8?