Adding digits to beginning of number.

[Veest]

Heya,

 

My friend gave me this piece of PHP coding which should add extra 0's onto the beginning of a number depending on how large the number is. For example 0000001, 0000030, 0000658 etc etc.

 

However at the moment, all its doing is giving me the number without the extra 0's in!

 

while($l=mysql_fetch_array($result)){

$i=0;
while($i<1){
$id=$l[$i];

$ii=0;
$number='';
while($ii<(7-$id)){
$number.='0';
$ii++;
}
$number.=$id;
$out .='"Barcode","'.$id.'","LSO"';
$i++;
}

}

 

Does anyone have any ideas what is wrong with the coding? I'm sure its easy to fix for all you PHP Experts!

 

Thanks in advance!

[PFMaBiSmAd]

That code may or may not do what you want, but as soon as you reference the results as a number any leading zeros will be lost. You must always reference the result as a string in order to keep any leading zeros.

 

All that code can be replaced with the php str_pad() function.

[Veest]

Fantastic! This has worked!

 

Thank you very much!