* Adding a new function to format numbers (commafy) and using it for formatNum

  by default, this means that everyone that doesn't have a formatNum function
  will see the en_* format but those that do will continue to see what they
  already do.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/languages/Language.php b/languages/Language.php
index 341e479cce34..0ca074b91b9c 100644
--- a/languages/Language.php
+++ b/languages/Language.php
@@ -2390,9 +2390,19 @@ class Language {
 	 *        a floating point number. 
 	 */
 	function formatNum( $number ) {
-		return $number;
+		return $this->commafy($number);
 	}
-
+	
+	/**
+	 * Adds commas to a given number
+	 *
+	 * @param mixed $_
+	 * @return string
+	 */
+	function commafy($_) {
+		return strrev((string)preg_replace('/(\d{3})(?=\d)(?!\d*\.)/','$1,',strrev($_)));
+	}
+		
 	function listToText( $l ) {
 		$s = '';
 		$m = count($l) - 1;