Shorten long numbers to K/M/B?

Question

I\'ve googled this a lot but i can\'t find any helpful functions based on my queries.

What i want is:

100 -> 100
1000 -> 1,000
142840 -> 142         


        

Answer 1

Altough this question was asked quite some time ago I have a different solution, which I think is even more simple:

function shorten($number){
    $suffix = ["", "K", "M", "B"];
    $precision = 1;
    for($i = 0; $i < count($suffix); $i++){
        $divide = $number / pow(1000, $i);
        if($divide < 1000){
            return round($divide, $precision).$suffix[$i];
            break;
        }
    }
}
echo shorten(1000);

I hope that it's still helpful for someone.