number printing

[Anon]

I have a counter that displays a number.

If the count is 23, how can I add more 0's to the begining, eg:

000023

I want to be able to set the amount numbers displayed, eg. 6 or 8 or whatever.

Thanks,
Mark

[Anon]

//Kai's quick and dirty number padding ;-)

$counter_length = 6; //number of digits to display

if ( strlen($counter) < $counter_length)

{
//loop to pad the number
for ( $i = strlen($counter); $i < $counter_length; $i++)
{
$counter = "0" . $counter;
}

}

echo $counter;

[badman]

hello mark,

you need to use sprintf(), or printf() to achieve what you want.

examples:
$i=98;
printf("%04d","$i");

$date = sprintf ("%04d-%02d-%02d", $year, $month, $day);

echo $date;

the example will echo "0098" and 0000-00-00 on the page.

difference in printf and sprintf is obvious printf echoes the result will the other doesnt.

To add more leading zeroes just change the argument in printf("%0x",$variable)

x=number of zeroes wanted.

you can find out more in the php docs at www.php.net under string functions.
hope this helps!