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Welcome to Phanisana

Phanisana is a robust and flexible PHP library designed to convert numbers, dates, and times into their full-text representations in the Malagasy 🇲🇬 language. Whether you're developing business software, educational tools, or localization-ready apps, Phanisana helps make your content more accessible to Malagasy speakers.

The name Phanisana is a creative fusion of PHP, the programming language it’s built on, and fanisana, the Malagasy word for "counting" or "calculation". This reflects the library’s core purpose and cultural roots.

✅ Features

  • Converts any integer into its correct Malagasy number word.
  • Supports numbers from 0 up to PHP_INT_MAX (typically 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 on 64-bit systems).
  • Properly handles large numeric scales including:
  • Millions (tapitrisa)
  • Billions (lavitrisa)
  • Trillions (arivo lavitrisa) and beyond.
  • Easy-to-use library with clean and expressive syntax.
  • Designed with extensibility in mind for future date/time support.

🚀 Getting Started

Ready to try it out? Head over to the Installation Guide to set it up in your project, and check the Usage Guide for practical examples.

🛠️ Contributing

We welcome contributions from the community! If you discover bugs, want to suggest enhancements, or contribute features, feel free to fork the repo and submit a pull request. You can also open an issue to start a discussion.

📄 License

This project is open source and available under the GNU GPL 3.0 License.