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Class 'NumberFormatter' not found error in simple PHP program

I have a simple PHP program but I am encountering this error:

Class 'NumberFormatter' not found

I have researched similar issues in Stackoverflow but honestly none gave a concrete solution. Others suggest to upgrade the version of PHP, others un-comment a specific line in the php.ini file and none of those worked for me.

Below is my code: I even used the suggested solution from https://bugs.php.net but it still doesn't work.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>

<?php
function writeMsg(){

$f = new \NumberFormatter("en", \NumberFormatter::SPELLOUT);    

echo $f->format(1432);
}
writeMsg();
?>  

</body>
</html>
Solution

  • Two things

    1. You need PHP 5.3 or above.

    2. You may not have the php-intl extension installed.

    To check, run in your terminal:

    php -m | grep intl

    If there's no results, you'll need to install it which varies depending on your system and PHP Version

    On a Mac for example, you can install it for PHP 5.6 by running:

    brew install php56-intl

    Make sure you restart your web server after you install!

    EDIT for XAMPP:

    If you're running XAMPP, then this is probably installed but not enabled.

    1. Find your php.ini file -- path-to-your-xampp/php/php.ini -- and open it in an editor.

    2. Search for php_intl. If you find ;extension=php_intl.dll, then just remove the semi-colon from the front of the line -- this uncomments it.

    3. Restart XAMPP!