Leading Zeros

Anon

I have developed an authentiaction app for a website that uses a 5 digit code as the login. This is stored in MySQL as an integer(5) unsigned zerofill.

Some of these codes start with a humble 0.

Now, when someone whose code starts with a 0 logs in, they are not required to use the laeding zero(s). I would like to enforce that if their access code is 01234 then they MUST use 01234 to login, not be able to login with 1234 as they currently can do...

It seems to me that there is no mechanism in PHP to retain a zerofill in an integer. Am i correct, or am i blindly missing something...and if I am correct, does anyone have any suggestions for how I could make this system work the way I need it to?

thanks in advance

interactive

uh dump the numbers and user usernames?

Anon

yeah thanks for your help, but it is the client that wishes to use numbers...

i guess i could dump the client too, then my child and i can starve...

hmmm...not an option...

so does anyone else have any idea?

Anon

You can use strlen() to see how many characters the user typed.

Diego

interactive

lol ok better not then but yea use the strlen()

Anon

thanks ppl....

Anon

Five digit numbers, with leading zeros:

$usernumber = sprintf('%05s',$usernumber);