Question

what I want to do is add the number in loop and get the result, my addition is correct, but the string was not correct.

here is my code:

$contract_records->start_no = 0;
for($i=1;$i<=($contract_records->no_of_pages);$i++){            
$start_no = $contract_records->start_no;        
$total = $start_no + $i;
var_dump($total);

var_dump result is:

int(1) int(2) int(3) int(4) int(5)

what I want in my result is:

00001
00002
00003
00004
00005

detail:

$contract_records->start_no = 00001
$contract_records->no_of_pages = 5

any idea?
thanks

Answer 1

Numbers don’t have a format. A numeric value is just the value, there are no leading zeros. Format your numbers upon output, for example using number_format or sprintf.