Probably the worst way to pad a string...
Submitted by phrax on Tue, 2004-09-21 14:48.
Wonky Code
Everyday I find code examples that make me go WTF. This is a prime example of one. It is a function that takes an item's id number and generates a left zero padded string with the id number.
I guess nobody told them about the str_pad() function.
function getVanPic($item_id) {
$pic_path = "/path/to/pic/dir";
if ($item_id >= 1000000) {
$strPicName = $item_id;
}
else if ($item_id >= 100000) {
$strPicName = "0".$item_id;
}
else if ($item_id >= 10000) {
$strPicName = "00".$item_id;
}
else if ($item_id >= 1000) {
$strPicName = "000".$item_id;
}
else if ($item_id >= 100) {
$strPicName = "0000".$item_id;
}
else if ($item_id >= 10) {
$strPicName = "00000".$item_id;
}
else {
$strPicName = "000000".$item_id;
}
$strPicName1 = "w".$strPicName.".jpg";
if (file_exists($pic_path."/".$strPicName1)) {
return "van/".$strPicName1;
}
$strPicName1 = "W".$strPicName.".JPG";
if (file_exists($pic_path."/".$strPicName1)) {
return "van/".$strPicName1;
}
return "";
}
