PHP Count round thousand to a K style count like facebook Share . . . Twitter Button ect

Question

Ok so I am trying to turn my hit counter to round thousands to a single digit too display 3 thousand hits as 3K for example, like the Facebook Share and Twitter Tweet Button

Answer 1

This questuion have the same goal as this question in here Shorten long numbers to K/M/B?

Reference: https://gist.github.com/RadGH/84edff0cc81e6326029c

Try this code:

function number_format_short( $n, $precision = 1 ) {
    if ($n < 900) {
        // 0 - 900
        $n_format = number_format($n, $precision);
        $suffix = '';
    } else if ($n < 900000) {
        // 0.9k-850k
        $n_format = number_format($n / 1000, $precision);
        $suffix = 'K';
    } else if ($n < 900000000) {
        // 0.9m-850m
        $n_format = number_format($n / 1000000, $precision);
        $suffix = 'M';
    } else if ($n < 900000000000) {
        // 0.9b-850b
        $n_format = number_format($n / 1000000000, $precision);
        $suffix = 'B';
    } else {
        // 0.9t+
        $n_format = number_format($n / 1000000000000, $precision);
        $suffix = 'T';
    }
  // Remove unecessary zeroes after decimal. "1.0" -> "1"; "1.00" -> "1"
  // Intentionally does not affect partials, eg "1.50" -> "1.50"
    if ( $precision > 0 ) {
        $dotzero = '.' . str_repeat( '0', $precision );
        $n_format = str_replace( $dotzero, '', $n_format );
    }
    return $n_format . $suffix;
}

The code above create a function to convert the numbers. To use this function later just call it like in the code below:

// Example Usage:
number_format_short(7201); // Output: 7.2k