String / Int.

Kold

Hi.

I am having a problem with string values, e.g. $myVar = "00456" then add it into a string;

$myNewVar = "my string value=".$myVar." :-)";

This will give 456, and cut off the preceding 0's. This poses a problem for phone numbers.

How can i sort this?
Thanks!!

HP400

I've tryed this out on my computer and it worked ok. As long as myVar is a string and thus wrapped with "" it should remain with the 0's. Are you doing anything else with the myNewVar or myVar thats not in the above code?

Kold

Hi.

Well it's not exactly; $myVar = "00456" It comes out of a database, I didnt realise there would be any difference. Its more like; $row['phone_num']

Thanks.

bpat1434

what is the column type of the database? If it's a string or text, you should be fine. IF it's an integer, there's the problem!!

Although, if you're going to always have 5 digits, you could always pad-left:

$string = "456";
$newstirng = str_pad($string, 5, "0", STR_PAD_LEFT);

echo $newstring;

That should give you:

~Brett

Kold

Hmmm, strange. I was assured that the problem was with my script, but further investigation shows it works fine when echo's to the page. It is taken out of the database, and sent via PEAR as a poststring to another server. The 0's were getting lost from the phone numbers. Problem at the other end perhaps??