Live Demo: Pad the Left End of a String in PHP

 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Pad the Left End of a String in PHP</title>
</head>
<body>
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<?php
// Sample string
$str = "Hello World";
​
// Padding the left end of string
echo str_pad($str, 16, "*", STR_PAD_LEFT);
?>
​
</body>
</html>