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How to add leading zeros to a number in PHP

Adding of leading zeros in PHP is really easy using the sprintf function.

Example : 

$x = 3;
print sprintf("%04d",$x);

which will print '0003'

Here are sprintf's docs : sprintf manual on php.net .

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