Question

Needs to be padded to this: str_pad($Month, 2, ‘0’, STR_PAD_LEFT) but how/where???

/*******creates the month selection dropdown array****/   function createMonths($id='month_select', $selected=null)     {         /*** array of months ***/         $months = array(                 1=>'Jan',                 2=>'Feb',                 3=>'Mar',                 4=>'Apr',                 5=>'May',                 6=>'Jun',                 7=>'Jul',                 8=>'Aug',                 9=>'Sep',                 10=>'Oct',                 11=>'Nov',                 12=>'Dec');          /*** current month ***/         $selected = is_null($selected) ? date('m') : $selected;          $select = '<select name=''.$id.'' id=''.$id.''>'.'\n';         foreach($months as $key=>$mon)         {             $select .= '<option value=\'$key\'';             $select .= ($key==$selected) ? ' selected='selected'' : '';             $select .= '>$mon</option>\n';           }         $select .= '</select>';         return $select;     }  /********displays the month selection with current month selected/*******</br>  echo createMonths('Month', date ('m'));   /******DISPLAYS MONTH AS (4) INSTEAD OF REQUIRED (O4) --- @:( /*****</br> echo $_POST['Month']; 

Answer 1

Well, assuming it’s the value you want to be padded, it’s here:

$select .= '<option value=\'$key\''; 

becomes

$select .= '<option value=''.str_pad($key, 2, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT).'''; 

This assumes that you don’t want it padded when you’re doing the check against $selected, if you do, you need to do it at the beginning of the loop, overwriting the value in $key, and then you can use your original code, like so:

foreach($months as $key=>$mon) {     $key = str_pad($key, 2, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT);     $select .= '<option value=\'$key\'';     $select .= ($key==$selected) ? ' selected='selected'' : '';     $select .= '>$mon</option>\n'; }