[SOLVED] Problem formatting numbers. eg. 2 as 02

[gtotman]

Hello,

 

Our web host recently upgraded from php 4.1.0 to 4.3.9 and some of our code is now displaying a different result.  Our database stores times in seconds and we convert the displayed time to minutes:seconds using php.  With the old php version, the following code would output 2:09.45 but now it displays 2:9.45 instead. 

 

<?php 
list($minutes, $seconds) = secs2mins(129.45);
printf ("%3d:%02.2f", $minutes, $seconds);

function secs2mins($secs)
{
$minutes = floor($secs / 60);
$seconds = $secs - ($minutes * 60);
return array ($minutes, $seconds);
}
?>

 

Is there a simple fix or do we need to do an if statement that will add a zero when $seconds is less than 10?

 

Thank you.

[jjacquay712]

Is there a simple fix or do we need to do an if statement that will add a zero when $seconds is less than 10?

 

i would do the if statement, its the easiest way.

[rickvandenham]

In the code %02.2f, the 02 means pad with the character 0 and only pad up to two characters.  This worked in your older version of php, but now you need to code this as %05.2f as the padding now refers to the length of the field rather than just the number of digits before the decimal point.

 

[gtotman]

Many thanks rickvandenham. 

 

That was exactly the type of simple solution we needed.  I have tested it on our website and things work perfectly.

 

gtotman