This solution will teach us how to transform ordinary numbers into Roman numerals with PHP.
solution 1.
Optimized and prettified function:
/**
* @param int $number
* @return string
*/
function numberToRomanRepresentation($number) {
$map = array('M' => 1000, 'CM' => 900, 'D' => 500, 'CD' => 400, 'C' => 100, 'XC' => 90, 'L' => 50, 'XL' => 40, 'X' => 10, 'IX' => 9, 'V' => 5, 'IV' => 4, 'I' => 1);
$returnValue = '';
while ($number > 0) {
foreach ($map as $roman => $int) {
if($number >= $int) {
$number -= $int;
$returnValue .= $roman;
break;
}
}
}
return $returnValue;
}
solution 2.
function romanNumber($n)
{
// support for numbers greater than a thousand
$ret1 = '';
while ($n >= 1000) {
$ret1 .= 'M';
$n -= 1000;
}
$ret = '';
if ($n > 0) {
$n = (string) $n;
$l = 'IVXLCDM';
$j = 0; // goes by roman letters
for ($i = strlen($n)-1; $i >= 0; --$i) { // goes by decimal number
switch ($n[$i]) {
case 0: $s = ''; break;
case 1: $s = $l[$j]; break;
case 2: $s = $l[$j].$l[$j]; break;
case 3: $s = $l[$j].$l[$j].$l[$j]; break;
case 4: $s = $l[$j].$l[$j+1]; break;
case 5: $s = $l[$j+1]; break;
case 6: $s = $l[$j+1].$l[$j]; break;
case 7: $s = $l[$j+1].$l[$j].$l[$j]; break;
case 8: $s = $l[$j+1].$l[$j].$l[$j].$l[$j]; break;
case 9: $s = $l[$j].$l[$j+2]; break;
}
$j += 2;
$ret = $s.$ret;
}
}
return $ret1.$ret;
}