Trying to convert string to decimal equivalent

[erikcw]

Hi all,

I am trying to convert a string of any given length (can include special characters such as :,/,-,.,etc...) into its decimal equivalent. I've tried all of the php functions I can find, but they all seem to deal with hex or binary.

For example:
h == 104 (it is ok if the function adds the html enties on h)

(here is a table of the decimal equivalents [neurophys.wisc.edu ])

I've tried:
HexDec()
bin2hex()
BinDex()
etc....

Can anyone tell me how to convert this value?

Thanks so much!

[dmorison]

ord() [uk.php.net] will return the ASCII value of a character. You can use this on every character of your input string; but it is not clear from your question what output you are after.

For example, given the string "HELLO", what output are you looking for?

[jatar_k]

what about something like this

<? 
$str = "hello world!"; 
for($i=0;$i<strlen($str);$i++) { 
 echo ord($str{$i}) . " "; 
} 
?>

just added the space after to seperate the chars, otherwise it just looks like a big mess.

[dmorison]

By the way, if your objective here is to make a string "web safe", don't forget htmlentities() [uk.php.net].

[erikcw]

Thanks all for your help!

jatar_k - your code block did exactly the trick! Thanks!

Erik