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designersvsoft
designersvsoft

Reputation: 1859

month format php

I am just a beginner in php. I am trying to print the array of months using the following code.

<?php
$totalmonth=12;
for($startmonth=01; $startmonth<=$totalmonth; $startmonth++)
{
    $montharr[]=$startmonth;
}
print_r($montharr);
?>

My result is Array ( [0] => 1 [1] => 2 [2] => 3 [3] => 4 [4] => 5 [5] => 6 [6] => 7 [7] => 8 [8] => 9 [9] => 10 [10] => 11 [11] => 12 )

I need my result should look like this

[0] => 01 [1] => 02

How can i do that?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 104

Answers (6)

joar
joar

Reputation: 15897

You could use sprintf to print it to a string as zero-padded integers.

Example:

<?php
  $month = sprintf("%02d", $month);

due to the nature of integers, math; PHP (and the majority of all applications) will interpret (int)01 as 1. To keep the leading zero, it has to be a string.

Upvotes: 1

EGOrecords
EGOrecords

Reputation: 1969

Force that a String is inserted, by implicitly converting it into one:

 $montharr[]= "" + $startmonth;

Upvotes: 0

Bon Espresso
Bon Espresso

Reputation: 693

Use PHP built-in str_pad:

<?php
$totalmonth=12;
for($startmonth=01; $startmonth<=$totalmonth; $startmonth++)
{
    $montharr[] = str_pad($startmonth, 2, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT);
}
print_r($montharr);
?>

Upvotes: 0

Rich Bradshaw
Rich Bradshaw

Reputation: 72975

Use str_pad.

<?php
$totalmonth=12;
for($startmonth=1; $startmonth<=$totalmonth; $startmonth++)
{
    $montharr[]=str_pad($startmonth, 2, "0", STR_PAD_LEFT);
}
print_r($montharr);
?>

Upvotes: 3

bububaba
bububaba

Reputation: 2870

For example sprintf: http://php.net/manual/en/function.sprintf.php

Upvotes: 0

Oldskool
Oldskool

Reputation: 34837

PHP has many date functions that will probably serve better solutions to whatever you're trying to achieve, but a very quick and dirty way would be to check if the number is lower then 10 and then prepend a zero:

<?php
$totalmonth=12;
for($startmonth=1; $startmonth<=$totalmonth; $startmonth++)
{
    // Check amount
    if($startmonth < 10) {
        $montharr[]='0'.$startmonth;
    } else {
        $montharr[]=$startmonth;
    }
}
print_r($montharr);
?>

Upvotes: 0

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