note 11333 added to String functions

Regarding your requests on ordinal numbers, the date functions may be useful: date("S",mktime(0,0,0,1,$x,1970)); Formatting a date as "S" gives the ordinal of it's day, i.e "21 march" would give "st" mktime takes the parameters (h,m,s,m,d,y) - note the order. Jan n'th 1970 is a convenient way of converting an integer to a date. http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.strings.php