Question

I would like to generate an alphanumeric employee id in PHP e.g. EP0001

Any ideas?

Answer 1

We are going to need more than this to help you but this is what I would do.

Assuming EP is the start of every alphanumeric employee id then

<?php
$number = getTotalEmployees();

$id = 'EP'.$number;

function getTotalEmployees() {
    $num = 'Get number of Employees from database';
    ++$num; // add 1;

    $len = strlen($num);
    for($i=$len; $i< 4; ++$i) {
        $num = '0'.$num;
    }
    return $num;
}
?>

UPDATE

Thanks to Trefex
If you use MySQL, you could store the employee ID in a field and set the ZEROFILL attribute. That way you don’t have to deal with the zeroes in PHP

<?php
function getTotalEmployees() {
    $num = 'Get number of Employees from database';
    ++$num; // add 1;
    return $num;
}
?>