Add Order Number to Invoice – osCommerce

A client wanted to add the order number to the invoice, so it shows like this;

It’s a pretty simple change, as shown below;

Remembering to also create the constant for the language;

Done!

Then I was asked to “pad” the Order Number with a bunch of leading zero’s. My first idea was to simply add in some zero’s like this;

Order Number: 000006

So the code would read;

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00000

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But of course, this would not work as intended as there would always be 5 leading zeros, whereas it would look better to have 4 leading zeros in the 100’s and 3 leading zeros in the 1000’s – so….

000006
000066
000666
006666
and so on. By simply adding 5 leading zero’s I would get;

000006
0000066
00000666

etc. So, a quick look at the PHP site and I see that str_pad is the correct way to do this. Here’s the code;

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In this code I am saying that the Order Number ($oID) must be at least 6 digits long. If it less than 6 digits, then it is padded to the left (ie, preceeding the Order ID) with as many zeros as it takes to make the Order ID 6 digits. Hope that makes sense.

Anyway, I end up with exactly what is wanted! Which is always good.