Question

I have a MySQL column “phone” , and when data comes from my php form, if there’s a zero at the beginning, it will disappear in the table, for example :
“06719823” becomes “6719823“

I first though it was a problem from php, cause I’m using mysql_real_escape_string(), but then I tried to modify the SQL field directly on phpmyadmin, and I can’t add a first 0, it always delete it.

Colonne     Type     Interclassement    Attributs   Null    Défaut  Extra
phone       int(10)                                 Oui     NULL    

What’s wrong ? Should I assign an “interclassement” utf8_general_ci ?

Answer 1

Change your column type to char(10) for 10 digit phone numbers.