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I want to auto increment the alphanumeric character's ID and i want to savi it in to my database.
For example:
Example-001
Example-002
Example-003
Example-004
Example-005

Answer 1

You don't really want to store it like that -- bad idea.
Instead, just have your ID INT AUTO_INCREMENT in your MySQL and do something like
<?php echo "$dbRow['name']."-".$dbRow['id'];
Or, if you're OCD -
while(strlen($dbRow['id'] < 3) {
$dbRow['id'] = "0".$dbRow['id'];
}

Answer 2

If you are looking to increment the number at the end of those strings, and you have to do it in PHP, try this:
$str1 = "Example-001";
$parts = explode("-",$str1);
echo sprintf($parts[0] . '-%03d', $parts[1]+1); // Example-002
However I would guess there's a better way, possibly at the database level to accomplish what you need. You would need to explain more and post more code.
Example: http://3v4l.org/V2R5m

Answer 3

I'm not entirely sure what you mean, but since you tagged this as PHP and you're asking how "to auto increment an alphanumeric character's ID," here's a solution:
for ($i=0; $i<=10; $i++){
$number = str_pad($i, 3, "0", STR_PAD_LEFT);
echo "Example-$number <br />";
}
Outputs:
Example-000
Example-001
Example-002
Example-003
Example-004
Etc...
Not only is does it increment the number, but it does it automatically-ish.