Added support for using words instead of figures for a range of numbers

* The intention is to give the ability to support words instead of figures for numbers up to ten.
* Credit goes to Nick Zadrozny (nzadrozny) for the idea

jquery.timeago.js

@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@
         month: "about a month",
         months: "%d months",
         year: "about a year",
-        years: "%d years"
+        years: "%d years",
+        numbers: []
       }
     },
     inWords: function(distanceMillis) {
@@ -61,6 +62,12 @@
       var days = hours / 24;
       var years = days / 365;
 
+      function substitute(stringOrFunction, number) {
+        var string = $.isFunction(stringOrFunction) ? stringOrFunction(number) : stringOrFunction;
+        var value = ($l.numbers && $l.numbers[number]) || number;
+        return string.replace(/%d/i, value);
+      }
+
       var words = seconds < 45 && substitute($l.seconds, Math.round(seconds)) ||
         seconds < 90 && substitute($l.minute, 1) ||
         minutes < 45 && substitute($l.minutes, Math.round(minutes)) ||
@@ -127,11 +134,6 @@
     return (new Date().getTime() - date.getTime());
   }
 
-  function substitute(stringOrFunction, value) {
-    var string = $.isFunction(stringOrFunction) ? stringOrFunction(value) : stringOrFunction;
-    return string.replace(/%d/i, value);
-  }
-
   // fix for IE6 suckage
   document.createElement("abbr");
   document.createElement("time");

test/index.html

@@ -120,6 +120,10 @@
     <h2>Settings</h2>
 
     <ul>
+      <li><abbr id="testNumbersSettings1" class="tonumbers" title="120"></abbr> [2 min]</li>
+      <li><abbr id="testNumbersSettings2" class="tonumbers" title="540"></abbr> [9 min]</li>
+      <li><abbr id="testNumbersSettings3" class="tonumbers" title="600"></abbr> [10 min]</li>
+
       <li><abbr id="testYoungOldSettings1" class="toyoungold" title="504576000"></abbr> [5840 days]</li>
       <li><abbr id="testYoungOldSettings2" class="toyoungold" title="2018304000"></abbr> [23360 days]</li>
 
@@ -206,6 +210,10 @@
 
       $("abbr.towords").each(toWords);
 
+      loadNumbers();
+      $("abbr.tonumbers").each(toWords);
+      unloadNumbers();
+
       loadYoungOldYears();
       $("abbr.toyoungold").each(toWords);
 
@@ -466,6 +474,12 @@
         ok($("#testRussianSettings21").html().match(/^3 года/), "Settings correctly applied");
         // TODO: Test "год" and "лет"
       });
+
+      test("numbers", function () {
+        ok($("#testNumbersSettings1").html().match(/^two minutes/), "Settings correctly applied");
+        ok($("#testNumbersSettings2").html().match(/^nine minutes/), "Settings correctly applied");
+        ok($("#testNumbersSettings3").html().match(/^10 minutes/), "Settings correctly applied");
+      });
     })(jQuery);
     //]]>
   </script>

test/test_helpers.js

@@ -15,6 +15,13 @@ function prepareDynamicDates() {
   $('abbr.modified').attr("title", iso8601(new Date(document.lastModified)));
 }
 
+function loadNumbers() {
+  jQuery.timeago.settings.strings.numbers = ["zero", "one", "two", "three", "four", "five", "six", "seven", "eight", "nine"];
+}
+function unloadNumbers() {
+  jQuery.timeago.settings.strings.numbers = [];
+}
+
 function loadPigLatin() {
   jQuery.timeago.settings.strings = {
     suffixAgo: "ago-hay",