Re: arabic numbering in php? -- A possibly faster/better solution

[Ahmed El-Helw <ahmed at piousity dot net>]

Edward H. Trager wrote:
> Hi, Ahmed, 
> Salam wa alaikum,
>
> While the PHP solution you devised for Arabic numerals using HTML character entity references
> works just fine, I thought I would present an alternative solution which is simpler
> and, because it uses the built-in PHP "strtr()" function, may be faster:
>
>    http://eyegene.ophthy.med.umich.edu/arabic/index.php
>   
ah neat!  i didn't think of this, thanks!  it looks a lot simpler than 
the way i had it done.
i appreciate it,
wsalams,
-ahmed