Letters to numbers?

[askeli]

Hi,
anyone know of an easy way to convert letters to numbers with PHP rather that str_replace "a","1" and so on?

i need to convert say bsg55vd7 to say 12355127 but not random it needs to convert the same everytime.

basicly i need to remove letters but not shorten the string

Thanks

[dmorison]

Do you want upper case and lower case handled the same, e.g A=1 and a=1?

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[askeli]

all lower already

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[dmorison]

Here's a starter for 10 - probably a way more efficient way to do it though...

 function letters2numbers($s) 
 { 
  for($i=0;$i<strlen($s);$i++) 
  { 
   if ((96 < ord($s[$i])) && (ord($s[$i]) < 123)) 
   { 
    $r .= ++$c; 
   } 
   else 
   { 
    $r .= $s[$i]; 
    $c = 0; 
   } 
  } 
  return $r; 
 } 

- note that this will increase the length of the string if you ever have a sequence of more than 9 characters. Your only alternative would be to wrap back to 0.

[mavherick]

I had to do something similar at one point and here is the function I used (had to remove a few things, so it might not work, but should be a good start):

function convertLettersToNumbers($myString) {

for ($i = 0; $i < strlen($myString); $i++) {
$asciiValue = ord($myString{$i});

if ($asciiValue > 96 && $asciiValue < 123) {
$myString{$i} = $asciiValue - 96;
}
}

return $myString;
}

You might have to change a few things if your conversion isn't linear (a=1, b=2, etc.)

Hope that helps

[added: doh! I'm typing too slow!]

mavherick

[askeli]

excellent thank you both