Number Increase

[Canman2005]

Hi all

 

I have a code which starts with a letter and then digits follow, an example code looks like

 

D002482

 

How can I get php to increase the codes number by 1, leaving the letter the same.

 

The above would look like

 

D002483

 

I tried

 

$codenum = substr('D002482', 1);
$codelet = substr('D002482', 0,1);
$code2 = $codenum+1;
print $codelet.$code2;

 

But that seems to remove the 00 at the start of the code

 

Can anyone help?

 

Thanks in advance

 

Dave

[dbo]

Yes it can be done. Do you have any code written yet?

[cooldude832]

look into sprintf() that will pad the 0s for you, but i think you need to do something like

<?php
$num = 002482
$num = sprintf("%06s", $num+1);
$code = "D".$num;
echo $code;
//Should give you D0024823
?>

[Canman2005]

Hi

 

That gives me

 

D000021.

 

Basically, if the number is 002482 then the next one should be 002483

 

Does that help?

 

Thanks