How to remove leading zero from a number in PHP?

Question

I have this TEXT FIELD which suppose to accept only numbers. It's actually a field for "price". I manage to find a javascript for accepting only numbers. Now I'm having issue when user keyed in 00030 into the field. When it's being save into the database and displayed out to the website, it's displays as $00030. How do I remove the 3 zeros or any zeros before it?

Answer 1

You can use one of two functions:

number_format($number);

or

money_format($number);



This will remove all the prefix 0's and format it correctly as a number. I have linked the the php.net manual

Answer 2

Php Leading Zeros

Answer 3

If you add a string to a number in php it will convert string to number, default format for number is hide leading zeroes, so '00030' + 0 should result in 30.