help putting zero in front of single digits in select

[Patrick]

Hello All,

Kind of new to PHP. I have an html form where a person inputs a date via
a drop down select. How do I make php put a zero in front of the numbers
1-9 ie. 01 02 03 when writing to the file? I have tried making the
value="01" etc. but this doesn't work. Below is a snippet of my form and
the code I am using to write to the file. I hope I have made myself
clear enough. Your help is greatly appreciated.


//form part
<select class="inform" name="logday">
<option value="1">1
<option value="2">2
<option value="3">3
<option value="4">4
<option value="5">5
<option value="6">6
<option value="7">7
<option value="8">8
<option value="9">9
<option value="10">10
etc,

//code part
fputs($out,"$_P OST[logday] ");


Thanks,
Patrick
--
Patrick A. Smith Assistant System Administrator
Ocean Circulation Group – USF - College of Marine Science
http://ocgweb.marine.usf.edu Phone: 727 553-3334

The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody
appreciates how difficult it was. - La Rochefoucauld

[Justin Koivisto]

Re: help putting zero in front of single digits in select

Patrick wrote:[color=blue]
> Hello All,
>
> Kind of new to PHP. I have an html form where a person inputs a date via
> a drop down select. How do I make php put a zero in front of the numbers
> 1-9 ie. 01 02 03 when writing to the file? I have tried making the
> value="01" etc. but this doesn't work. Below is a snippet of my form and
> the code I am using to write to the file. I hope I have made myself
> clear enough. Your help is greatly appreciated.
>
>
> //form part
> <select class="inform" name="logday">
> <option value="1">1
> <option value="2">2
> <option value="3">3
> <option value="4">4
> <option value="5">5
> <option value="6">6
> <option value="7">7
> <option value="8">8
> <option value="9">9
> <option value="10">10
> etc,
>
> //code part
> fputs($out,"$_P OST[logday] ");[/color]

use something more like:
fputs($out,spri ntf('%02d',intv al($_POST['logday'])));

[Alan Little]

Re: help putting zero in front of single digits in select

Carved in mystic runes upon the very living rock, the last words of
Patrick of comp.lang.php make plain:
[color=blue]
> Kind of new to PHP. I have an html form where a person inputs a date
> via a drop down select. How do I make php put a zero in front of the
> numbers 1-9 ie. 01 02 03 when writing to the file? I have tried making
> the value="01" etc. but this doesn't work.[/color]

Unless you're doing something in your code to explicitly change the type
of $logday to numerical, there's no reason that zero-padding in the
VALUE attribute shouldn't work.

<?php
$x = '01';
echo $x;
?>

Outputs 01

<?php
$x = '01';
$x*= 1;
echo $x;
?>

Outputs 1

--
Alan Little
Phorm PHP Form Processor

http://www.phorm.com/

[Patrick]

Re: help putting zero in front of single digits in select

Patrick wrote:
[color=blue]
> Hello All,
>
> Kind of new to PHP. I have an html form where a person inputs a date via
> a drop down select. How do I make php put a zero in front of the numbers
> 1-9 ie. 01 02 03 when writing to the file? I have tried making the
> value="01" etc. but this doesn't work. Below is a snippet of my form and
> the code I am using to write to the file. I hope I have made myself
> clear enough. Your help is greatly appreciated.
>
>
> //form part
> <select class="inform" name="logday">
> <option value="1">1
> <option value="2">2
> <option value="3">3
> <option value="4">4
> <option value="5">5
> <option value="6">6
> <option value="7">7
> <option value="8">8
> <option value="9">9
> <option value="10">10
> etc,
>
> //code part
> fputs($out,"$_P OST[logday] ");
>
>
> Thanks,
> Patrick[/color]

I figured it out.

$logday = $_POST[logday];

and then

fprintf($out,"% 02d",$logday);

instead of the fputs, which gives me my leading zero.

Patrick

--
Patrick A. Smith Assistant System Administrator
Ocean Circulation Group – USF - College of Marine Science
http://ocgweb.marine.usf.edu Phone: 727 553-3334

The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody
appreciates how difficult it was. - La Rochefoucauld

[omanzi]

Re: help putting zero in front of single digits in select

Use this

<?

for ($i==1;$i<= 31;$i++)
{
if ($i < 10)
{
?>

<option value="<? echo $i; ?>"> 0<? echo $i; ?> </option>

<? } else { ?>
<option value="<? echo $i; ?>"> <? echo $i; ?> </option>

<?
}
}
?>

Enjoy it

omanzi

[David Haynes]

Re: help putting zero in front of single digits in select

Justin Koivisto wrote:[color=blue]
> Patrick wrote:[color=green]
>> Hello All,
>>
>> Kind of new to PHP. I have an html form where a person inputs a date
>> via a drop down select. How do I make php put a zero in front of the
>> numbers 1-9 ie. 01 02 03 when writing to the file? I have tried making
>> the value="01" etc. but this doesn't work. Below is a snippet of my
>> form and the code I am using to write to the file. I hope I have made
>> myself clear enough. Your help is greatly appreciated.
>>
>>
>> //form part
>> <select class="inform" name="logday">
>> <option value="1">1
>> <option value="2">2
>> <option value="3">3
>> <option value="4">4
>> <option value="5">5
>> <option value="6">6
>> <option value="7">7
>> <option value="8">8
>> <option value="9">9
>> <option value="10">10
>> etc,
>>
>> //code part
>> fputs($out,"$_P OST[logday] ");[/color]
>
> use something more like:
> fputs($out,spri ntf('%02d',intv al($_POST['logday'])));[/color]

or
fprintf($out, '%02d', $_POST['logday']);

Also, for kicks, the form part could be:

<select class="inform" name="logday">
<?php
foreach( range(1, 10) as $v ) {
printf("<option value="%d">%d</option>\n", $v);
}
?>

-david-

[David Haynes]

Re: help putting zero in front of single digits in select

David Haynes wrote:
Typed too fast, correction below:[color=blue]
> fprintf($out, '%02d', $_POST['logday']);
>
> Also, for kicks, the form part could be:
>
> <select class="inform" name="logday">
> <?php
> foreach( range(1, 10) as $v ) {
> printf("<option value="%d">%d</option>\n", $v);[/color]
printf("<option value=\"%02d\"> %d</option>\n", $v);[color=blue]
> }
> ?>
>
> -david-
>[/color]