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Woodburn2006

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im getting a member id from a database in the format of: MEM0001

is there anyway i can split the text and the number, so that i have: MEM and 0001?

everytime i want to add a member i want 1 to be added so that it goes: mem0001, mem0002 etc

i know how to do the latter part, i just need to know how to split the mem from the number so that i can work out what the next one will be.
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"everytime i want to add a member i want 1 to be added so that it goes: mem0001, mem0002 etc"

I know you said you know how to do this, but you do realize that the numbered portion is still going to be a string right? So you can't just say $numbers++ because you can't perform math on a string. I'm sure there's a way to convert data types....but I'm not sure off the top of my head.
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How about in your database table, how two fields? ID and memberid? ID will be the auto increment number and memberid will be a string of "member" + ID as a string? Each time you add a member, you take the ID of what was last inserted and then append it to the "member" string then insert it to the memberid field.
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Did you actually try adding 1 to the number part? Adding a number to a number is a string should work correctly. Copy and run this example:
[code]<?php
$str = "mem0001";
$mem = substr($str,0,3);
$num = substr($str,3);
echo $str . ' => ' . $mem . ',' . $num . '<br>';
$num++;
echo '$num + 1 = ' . $num;
echo '<br>New member number = ' . $mem . sprintf("%04d",$num);
?>[/code]

Ken
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