.text() jquery function removes leading zero from month

Question

I am generating a reference number, using jQuery and Php comprising: a static string, a dynamic letter of the alphabet, the date in Month and Year and an autogenerated id.

I have these four elements concatenated as below.

$("#refno").text("ABC" + str + <?php echo date('Y') ?>  + <?php echo date('m')?>  + <?php echo $id -> id + 1; ?>);

str is the dynamic letter , set by selecting from a dropdown. It is required that I output the month in the mm format e.g 09 for September.

Challenge is, the leading zero in the month is truncated in the resulting ref number. e.g instead of ABCR20120923 i get ABCR2012923 . Yet when I echo date('m') 09 is output.

While I could choose to have an if statement that concatenates a zero onto the single character months, I would want to understand why zero is truncated and how I can have it displayed.

Thanks.Help Appreciated.

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 11 '12 at 07:11

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09 on its own in treated like an integer - a number does not make sense with leading zeros.

$("#refno").text("ABC" + str + <?php echo date('Y') ?>  + "<?php echo date('m')?>"  + <?php echo $id -> id + 1; ?>);

Add quotes

answered Sep 11 '12 at 07:11

Ragnar123

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 11 '12 at 07:13

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try passing your month as string instead of number

answered Sep 11 '12 at 07:13

rahul

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Thanks, I guess adding double quotes around it will do as below suggests. – watkib Sep 11 '12 at 07:18
ya sure try adding double quotes around it – rahul Sep 11 '12 at 07:19
True. "``" did it. – watkib Sep 11 '12 at 07:24

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:12

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Store your content in a variable and do zero padding(zfill),take a look at this,

How to output integers with leading zeros in JavaScript

edited May 23 '17 at 12:12

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answered Sep 11 '12 at 07:14

Vivek S

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Thanks, true that, integers no make sense with leading zeros. Great now I know about `zfill`. – watkib Sep 11 '12 at 07:17

.text() jquery function removes leading zero from month

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