Re: string manipulation
| From: | Michal Migurski | Date: | Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:02:46 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: string manipulation | ||
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> Hi I am trying to track down a method for transferring a database id
> such as 5 into a nice formatted order id such as ORD0005 - where the
> format for the order id is "ORD" + 5 digits made up of the database id
See documentation for sprintf().
Try something like:
$formatted = sprintf('ORD%05d', $id);
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