Re: [PHP] Restore Leading Zeros in Zip Codes
On Aug 21, 2008, at 9:44 PM, Keith Spiller wrote:
Hi,
RE: Restore Leading Zeros in Zip Codes
Does anyone happen to have a script that will restore the leading
zeros in a mixed data set of 5 digit zip codes and 10 digit zip+4
codes? Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Keith
?php
$len = strlen ($zip);
if ($len 5) {
str_pad ($zip, 5, 0, STR_PAD_LEFT);
} else if ($len 9) {
str_pad ($zip, 9, 0, STR_PAD_LEFT);
}
?
Of course as others have mentioned, if you need to account for '-',
then modify appropriately.
~Philip
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Re: [PHP] Restore Leading Zeros in Zip Codes
George Bernard Shaw, an Irishman. tedd wrote: At 11:13 PM +0100 8/22/08, Ashley Sheridan wrote: Not to mention, but of the two major English speaking countries, both America and England have different address standards. All too often an American site seems to think that a postcode is the same thing as a zip code, and then rejects it in a form for being in the wrong format! Yeah, but that's to be expected. You Brits get everything wrong -- you drive on the wrong side of the street, you eat with your fork in the wrong hand, and your postal codes are all messed up. :-) As Churchill once said We are two peoples separated by a common language. Cheers, tedd -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Restore Leading Zeros in Zip Codes
At 7:47 PM +0100 8/24/08, ioannes wrote: George Bernard Shaw, an Irishman. tedd wrote: As Churchill once said We are two peoples separated by a common language. And so did Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, and Patton -- Google it and you'll find that everyone said it. Cheers, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Restore Leading Zeros in Zip Codes
At 11:13 PM +0100 8/22/08, Ashley Sheridan wrote: Not to mention, but of the two major English speaking countries, both America and England have different address standards. All too often an American site seems to think that a postcode is the same thing as a zip code, and then rejects it in a form for being in the wrong format! Yeah, but that's to be expected. You Brits get everything wrong -- you drive on the wrong side of the street, you eat with your fork in the wrong hand, and your postal codes are all messed up. :-) As Churchill once said We are two peoples separated by a common language. Cheers, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Restore Leading Zeros in Zip Codes
At 8:44 PM -0600 8/21/08, Keith Spiller wrote: Hi, RE: Restore Leading Zeros in Zip Codes Does anyone happen to have a script that will restore the leading zeros in a mixed data set of 5 digit zip codes and 10 digit zip+4 codes? Any suggestions? Thanks, Keith Keith: Why take them out in the first place? Keep the zip code as a string. After all, not all countries use just numbers. Cheers, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Restore Leading Zeros in Zip Codes
tedd wrote: At 8:44 PM -0600 8/21/08, Keith Spiller wrote: Hi, RE: Restore Leading Zeros in Zip Codes Does anyone happen to have a script that will restore the leading zeros in a mixed data set of 5 digit zip codes and 10 digit zip+4 codes? Any suggestions? Thanks, Keith Keith: Why take them out in the first place? Keep the zip code as a string. After all, not all countries use just numbers. Cheers, tedd or, if you use US zip codes only, use ZEROFILL feature in mysql? -afan -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Restore Leading Zeros in Zip Codes
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Afan Pasalic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tedd wrote: At 8:44 PM -0600 8/21/08, Keith Spiller wrote: Hi, RE: Restore Leading Zeros in Zip Codes Does anyone happen to have a script that will restore the leading zeros in a mixed data set of 5 digit zip codes and 10 digit zip+4 codes? Any suggestions? Thanks, Keith Keith: Why take them out in the first place? Keep the zip code as a string. After all, not all countries use just numbers. Cheers, tedd or, if you use US zip codes only, use ZEROFILL feature in mysql? -afan -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php From a recent experience, you should all listen to Tedd's advice. I inhereited an application when I came to work at my current job where the developer used an INT(11) mysql column type for zipcodes. Its turned things into a nightmare. We pulll quotes based off distance and calculate that off zip codes. First I found that there are some 4 digit zip codes in other counties, and shipping from Ohio to New Jersey quotes were coming up as thousands of miles and thousands of dollars, when they shouldn't have. Then there was the announcement of expanding into Canada. Then came digging thru all the code trying to redo how zip codes are happening, and ultimately its lead to a rewrite of the system. Do yourself a favor, and use a string type, fix the ones you have with a sprintf() function and be glad you won't have to suffer in the future. -- -Dan Joseph www.canishosting.com - Plans start @ $1.99/month. Build a man a fire, and he will be warm for the rest of the day. Light a man on fire, and will be warm for the rest of his life.
Re: [PHP] Restore Leading Zeros in Zip Codes
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Afan Pasalic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tedd wrote: At 8:44 PM -0600 8/21/08, Keith Spiller wrote: Hi, RE: Restore Leading Zeros in Zip Codes Does anyone happen to have a script that will restore the leading zeros in a mixed data set of 5 digit zip codes and 10 digit zip+4 codes? Any suggestions? Thanks, Keith Keith: Why take them out in the first place? Keep the zip code as a string. After all, not all countries use just numbers. Cheers, tedd or, if you use US zip codes only, use ZEROFILL feature in mysql? -afan Definitely not. Tedd and Dan are correct; the zeros are significant, not just filler. Keep in mind that ZIP codes ARE NOT numbers at all, even if they look like numbers in the US. They are postal codes, which are a string of character data even if all the characters are numeric digits. Just expand your database to include Canada and it will become abundantly clear that a numeric data type is not correct for postal codes. Andrew -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Restore Leading Zeros in Zip Codes
At 12:35 PM -0400 8/22/08, Dan Joseph wrote: tedd wrote: Why take them out in the first place? Keep the zip code as a string. After all, not all countries use just numbers. From a recent experience, you should all listen to Tedd's advice. I inhereited an application when I came to work at my current job where the developer used an INT(11) mysql column type for zipcodes. Its turned things into a nightmare. We pulll quotes based off distance and calculate that off zip codes. First I found that there are some 4 digit zip codes in other counties, and shipping from Ohio to New Jersey quotes were coming up as thousands of miles and thousands of dollars, when they shouldn't have. Then there was the announcement of expanding into Canada. Then came digging thru all the code trying to redo how zip codes are happening, and ultimately its lead to a rewrite of the system. Do yourself a favor, and use a string type, fix the ones you have with a sprintf() function and be glad you won't have to suffer in the future. -- -Dan Joseph Back-side I told the OP to convert to sting, add zeros to the left, and left-trim as necessary. There is much more here than what meets the eye with international addresses. As a word of caution, don't make anything a number and also open address forms to accept multiple strings for international addressing. There's a big world out there of people who don't conform to what we think is the standard. Remember, if you speak/write English then you're only 4 percent of the world's population. We're hardly the standard for anything. Cheers, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Restore Leading Zeros in Zip Codes
On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 17:16 -0400, tedd wrote: At 12:35 PM -0400 8/22/08, Dan Joseph wrote: tedd wrote: Why take them out in the first place? Keep the zip code as a string. After all, not all countries use just numbers. From a recent experience, you should all listen to Tedd's advice. I inhereited an application when I came to work at my current job where the developer used an INT(11) mysql column type for zipcodes. Its turned things into a nightmare. We pulll quotes based off distance and calculate that off zip codes. First I found that there are some 4 digit zip codes in other counties, and shipping from Ohio to New Jersey quotes were coming up as thousands of miles and thousands of dollars, when they shouldn't have. Then there was the announcement of expanding into Canada. Then came digging thru all the code trying to redo how zip codes are happening, and ultimately its lead to a rewrite of the system. Do yourself a favor, and use a string type, fix the ones you have with a sprintf() function and be glad you won't have to suffer in the future. -- -Dan Joseph Back-side I told the OP to convert to sting, add zeros to the left, and left-trim as necessary. There is much more here than what meets the eye with international addresses. As a word of caution, don't make anything a number and also open address forms to accept multiple strings for international addressing. There's a big world out there of people who don't conform to what we think is the standard. Remember, if you speak/write English then you're only 4 percent of the world's population. We're hardly the standard for anything. Cheers, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com Not to mention, but of the two major English speaking countries, both America and England have different address standards. All too often an American site seems to think that a postcode is the same thing as a zip code, and then rejects it in a form for being in the wrong format! Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
[PHP] Restore Leading Zeros in Zip Codes
Hi, RE: Restore Leading Zeros in Zip Codes Does anyone happen to have a script that will restore the leading zeros in a mixed data set of 5 digit zip codes and 10 digit zip+4 codes? Any suggestions? Thanks, Keith
Re: [PHP] Restore Leading Zeros in Zip Codes
if (strlen($zip) == 4 || strlen($zip) == 9) $zip = 0$zip; Thank you, Micah Gersten onShore Networks Internal Developer http://www.onshore.com Keith Spiller wrote: Hi, RE: Restore Leading Zeros in Zip Codes Does anyone happen to have a script that will restore the leading zeros in a mixed data set of 5 digit zip codes and 10 digit zip+4 codes? Any suggestions? Thanks, Keith -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Restore Leading Zeros in Zip Codes
That's actually not going to work if there's more than 1 zero missing.
This is better.
if (strlen($zip) 5)
$zip = sprintf('%05d',$zip);
else if (strlen($zip) 10)
{
$zipArray = explode('-', $zip);
$zip = sprintf('%05d',$zipArray[0]);
$zip .= - . $zipArray[1];
}
Thank you,
Micah Gersten
onShore Networks
Internal Developer
http://www.onshore.com
Micah Gersten wrote:
if (strlen($zip) == 4 || strlen($zip) == 9)
$zip = 0$zip;
Thank you,
Micah Gersten
onShore Networks
Internal Developer
http://www.onshore.com
Keith Spiller wrote:
Hi,
RE: Restore Leading Zeros in Zip Codes
Does anyone happen to have a script that will restore the leading zeros in a
mixed data set of 5 digit zip codes and 10 digit zip+4 codes? Any
suggestions?
Thanks,
Keith
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RE: [PHP] Restore Leading Zeros in Zip Codes
I'd try something like;
If(strlen($zipcode) = 5) $zipcode = sprintf(%05d,$zipcode);
Else {
$zipcode = sprintf(%09d,$zipcode);
$zipcode = substr($zipcode,0,5).-.substr(zipcode,5);
}
This isn't real elegant, but it should do the trick. You may notice that
the 10 character zip code is not 10 digits but rather 5 plus 4, or 9 digits.
Warren Vail
-Original Message-
From: Keith Spiller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 7:44 PM
To: php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: [PHP] Restore Leading Zeros in Zip Codes
Hi,
RE: Restore Leading Zeros in Zip Codes
Does anyone happen to have a script that will restore the
leading zeros in a mixed data set of 5 digit zip codes and 10
digit zip+4 codes? Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Keith
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RE: [PHP] Restore Leading Zeros in Zip Codes
Dave brought up something I forgot, what if the - is already in the sip
code;
Modify the code as follows;
If(strlen($zipcode) = 5) $zipcode = sprintf(%05d,$zipcode);
Else {
$zipcode = sprintf(%09d,str_replace(-,,$zipcode));
$zipcode = substr($zipcode,0,5).-.substr(zipcode,5);
}
-Original Message-
From: Warren Vail [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 8:08 PM
To: 'Keith Spiller'; php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: RE: [PHP] Restore Leading Zeros in Zip Codes
I'd try something like;
If(strlen($zipcode) = 5) $zipcode = sprintf(%05d,$zipcode); Else {
$zipcode = sprintf(%09d,$zipcode);
$zipcode = substr($zipcode,0,5).-.substr(zipcode,5);
}
This isn't real elegant, but it should do the trick. You may
notice that the 10 character zip code is not 10 digits but
rather 5 plus 4, or 9 digits.
Warren Vail
-Original Message-
From: Keith Spiller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 7:44 PM
To: php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: [PHP] Restore Leading Zeros in Zip Codes
Hi,
RE: Restore Leading Zeros in Zip Codes
Does anyone happen to have a script that will restore the leading
zeros in a mixed data set of 5 digit zip codes and 10 digit zip+4
codes? Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Keith
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RE: [PHP] Restore Leading Zeros in Zip Codes
I never considered the dash a digit, but then I forgot a dollar sign on one
of the variable names, but you can probably figure that out.
Warren Vail
-Original Message-
From: Warren Vail [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 8:17 PM
To: 'Warren Vail'; 'Keith Spiller'; php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: RE: [PHP] Restore Leading Zeros in Zip Codes
Dave brought up something I forgot, what if the - is
already in the sip code;
Modify the code as follows;
If(strlen($zipcode) = 5) $zipcode = sprintf(%05d,$zipcode); Else {
$zipcode = sprintf(%09d,str_replace(-,,$zipcode));
$zipcode = substr($zipcode,0,5).-.substr(zipcode,5);
}
-Original Message-
From: Warren Vail [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 8:08 PM
To: 'Keith Spiller'; php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: RE: [PHP] Restore Leading Zeros in Zip Codes
I'd try something like;
If(strlen($zipcode) = 5) $zipcode =
sprintf(%05d,$zipcode); Else {
$zipcode = sprintf(%09d,$zipcode);
$zipcode = substr($zipcode,0,5).-.substr(zipcode,5);
}
This isn't real elegant, but it should do the trick. You
may notice
that the 10 character zip code is not 10 digits but rather
5 plus 4,
or 9 digits.
Warren Vail
-Original Message-
From: Keith Spiller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 7:44 PM
To: php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: [PHP] Restore Leading Zeros in Zip Codes
Hi,
RE: Restore Leading Zeros in Zip Codes
Does anyone happen to have a script that will restore the leading
zeros in a mixed data set of 5 digit zip codes and 10 digit zip+4
codes? Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Keith
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