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Ok, i have this

$number

which would equal a date in this format 2007-02-13

What i am trying to do is remove the - and 0's from the date so it would equal

27213

This is what i have but its not working:

$number = number_format($number);
$number = strpos($number, "0") ;

Please advise

 

Why not use str_replace?

$number = str_replace( '-', '', $number );
$number = str_replace( '0', '', $number );

 

<?php
$number = "2007-02-13";
$number = str_replace("0", "", $number);
$number = str_replace("-", "", $number);
echo $number; // result "27213"
?>

good luck

 

thanks for your help!

 

FYI you can use arrays for str_replace, makes slightly more efficient code ...

$number = str_replace( array("0", "-"), array("", ""), $number );

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Yet on another sidenote, the second argument doesn't need to be an array. If it's a string all items in the first array will be replaced with it. So this would work too.

$number = str_replace( array("0", "-"), "", $number );

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