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delboy1978uk at gmail dot com ¶
7 years ago
I wanted this functionality without having to install the extension.

So here's a script I wrote to find out the greatest common denominator:

<?php

// Our fraction, 3/12, could be written better
$numerator = 3;
$denominator = 12;

/**
 * @param int $num
 * @return array The common factors of $num
 */
function getFactors($num) 
{
    $factors = [];
    // get factors of the numerator
    for ($x = 1; $x <= $num; $x ++) {
        if ($num % $x == 0) {
            $factors[] = $x;
        }
    }
    return $factors;
}

/**
 * @param int $x
 * @param int $y
 */
function getGreatestCommonDenominator($x, $y)
{
    // first get the common denominators of both numerator and denominator
    $factorsX = getFactors($x);
    $factorsY = getFactors($y);
    
    // common denominators will be in both arrays, so get the intersect
    $commonDenominators = array_intersect($factorsX, $factorsY);
    
    // greatest common denominator is the highest number (last in the array)
    $gcd = array_pop($commonDenominators);
    return $gcd;
}

// divide the numerator and denomiator by the gcd to get our refactored fraction
$gcd = getGreatestCommonDenominator($numerator, $denominator);
echo ($numerator / $gcd) .'/'. ($denominator / $gcd); // we can use divide (/) because we know result is an int :-)

Which you can see running here https://3v4l.org/uTucY
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