can this be done client side

[Steve Sea]

Hi all

Have a look at this http://www.leconjugueur.com/uknombre.php

I know it a php file but could the same thing be done client side or would the file be to big, obviously I can't see this file to see the size of it.

also how is it done ?

I've no php experience but would be prepared to mess around with a basic script

[Twey]

It's certainly possible. Here's one I wrote for English (in Python, sorry, started translating it to JS but stopped halfway for some reason):

units = ["", "one", "two", "three", "four", "five", "six", "seven", "eight", "nine"]
specunits = { "ten-one" : "eleven", "ten-two" : "twelve", "ten-three" : "thirteen", "ten-four" : "fourteen", "ten-five" : "fifteen", "ten-six" : "sixteen", "ten-seven" : "seventeen", "ten-eight" : "eighteen", "ten-nine" : "nineteen" }
tens = ["", "ten", "twenty", "thirty", "forty", "fifty", "sixty", "seventy", "eighty", "ninety"]

def num_to_english(num):
        try:
                num = int(num)
        except ValueError:
                return "Invalid input."

        if num < -999 or num > 999:
                return "Invalid input."

        if num == 0:
                return "zero"
        
        if num < 0:
                num = num * -1;
                minus = "minus "
        else:
                minus = ""

        nunits = num % 10
        ntens = int(math.floor((num % 100) / 10))
        nhunds = int(math.floor(num / 100))

        if tens[ntens] and units[nunits]:
                tandu = "%s-%s" % (tens[ntens], units[nunits])
        else:
                tandu = "%s%s" % (tens[ntens], units[nunits])

        if tandu in specunits.keys():
                tandu = specunits[tandu]

        thunds = units[nhunds]
        if thunds:
                thunds = "%s hundred " % thunds
        if units[nhunds]:
                if (tens[ntens] or units[nunits]):
                        thunds = "%sand " % thunds
                else:
                        tandu = ""

        return minus + thunds + tandu

It still uses tabs, I must've written this ages ago :-\

[Steve Sea]

English numbers ! how nice and easy (same as German.)

hundreds tens and units what a dream.

Now with the good old French system we run in to problems too many to list here, but a small part is like English then (for only reasons the French know) they do the equivalent of "four twenty's ten nine " (quatre-vingt-dix-neuf) 99 to the laymen of you.

so you can see it's a bit of a nightmare.

[Twey]

Aye, I know (je parle français aussi) but if you treat "quatre-vingt" as a whole number it's no problem. Same with quatre-vingt-dix, with exceptions like I've done above for "twelve" and so.

[Steve Sea]

Sorry I must be blind, I will have a play with the code, HTML is more my thing but will have a play and let you know if I can get a heart beat.

Merci beaucoup

Steve C.

[djr33]

Twey, instead of if num == 0: return "zero", I'd consider including "":"zero" in your list of exceptions.