Forcing a Zero in front of a One-digit Number

[mikeycorn]

Is there a better way of going about this . . .

If (strlen($day) < 2) {

  $twodigitday = "0" & $day;

} else {

  $twodigitday = $day;

}

I found the number_format function but that seems to deal only with decimal points and commas . . .

[Drakla]

[man]str_pad[/man]

[mikeycorn]

Beautiful, thanks!

[lth2h]

If you're getting $day from the date() function, using "d" in the format produces the day of the month with a leading zero.

[mikeycorn]

Good tip. I'm actually getting the values from customers clicking on numerical dates on a calendar, and reassembling it into a full YYYY-MM-DD, so (I think) str_pad is the route I had to go.