numbers < than 10 to be 01, 02 rather than 1, 2 etc.

[lottos]

$dayselect = "<select name=\"day\">\n";
			$dayselect .= "<option value=\"\">&nbsp;</option>\n";
			for($num = 1; $num <= 31; $num++) {
				$dayselect .= "<option value=\"$num\">$num</option>\n";
			}
			$dayselect .= "</select>";

results in single numeric value for digits less than 10 - is there a way to make 1 to 9
01 to 09 instead?

One way:

if ( $dayselect < "10" ) {
$dayselect = "0" . $dayselect
}

but there must be better ways?

[barand]

Use [man]sprintf[/man]

$dayselect = "<select name=\"day\">\n"; 
            $dayselect .= "<option value=\"\">&nbsp;</option>\n"; 
            for($num = 1; $num <= 31; $num++) { 
                $dayselect .= sprintf('<option value="%02d">%02d</option>%s', $num, $num,'\n'); 
            } 
            $dayselect .= "</select>";

hth

[lottos]

much appreciated!

[traskelin_com]

Try

substr("00$num", -2)

will give you two characters from the right of the string.