Re: Adding 6 digits to a str?

Try http://php.net/str_pad Andy <news.letters@gmx.de> wrote in message news:20020202173059.82517.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > Hi guys, > > I am trying to force a int to be 8 digits. If it is only 3 dig filling the > first ones with 0. > > Anyhow I tryed it with type casting, but it does not matter what I try, I > always get an addition. > > E.g: > $member_id is: 136 > should be: 00000136 > > Here is the code, which is still returning 136: > > for($i=0;$i<count($member_id);$i++){ > $length = strlen($member_id[$i]); > > settype ($member_id[$i], "string"); > $zero = '0'; > settype ($zero, "string"); > > $member_id[$i] = $zero + $member_id[$i]; > echo $member_id[$i]; > } > > Does anybody know how to solve this thing?? > > Thanx Andy > > > >