is there a function which will return a number with a given byte length.

i.e. pass '4' and return '004' if the byte length is '3'


proll'y a really simple answer but it's late and i'm tired.


cheers

I'd look in to the str_pad function.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.str-pad.php

brilliant, just what i wanted.

cheers