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S.N.O.W.M.A.N.-X
29-Sep-2006 03:47


Well, i was thinking about a method to hash a string with md5 in a loose way, so md5("HELLO") isn't the same like md5("Hello"), even, i my case, it is about cd-titles i got submitted by users. So i made some function transforming my string to right what i want



Thisone is the "call" function returning the "loose hash".

It will get only the chars of a string, make them to uppercase and then hash with md5.

function loosehash($string){

    return md5(strtoupper(onlyChars($string)));

}



Thisone is moving through a string like a chararray and check for the asciivalues, you can edit the values and condition to fit your needs

function onlyChars($string){

    $strlength = strlen($string);

    $retString = "";

    for($i = 0; $i < $strlength; $i++){

        if((ord($string[$i]) >= 48 && ord($string[$i]) <= 57) ||

        (ord($string[$i]) >= 65 && ord($string[$i]) <= 90) ||

        (ord($string[$i]) >= 97 && ord($string[$i]) <= 122)){

            $retString .= $string[$i];

        }

    }

    

    echo $retString;    

}

mwgamera at gmail dot com
16-Aug-2006 03:27


Little improvement to v0rbiz at yahoo dot com function:

<?php

  function uniord($u) {

    $c = unpack("N", mb_convert_encoding($u, 'UCS-4BE', 'UTF-8'));

    return $c[1];

  }

?>

However you still need mbstring.

phil (at) pchowtos (dot) co (dot) uk
19-Jul-2006 01:51


You can use the following function to generate a random string between the lengths of $x and $y...



$x = 1;  //minimum length

$y = 10;  //maximum length



$len = rand($x,$y);  //get a random string length



for ($i = 0; $i < $len; $i++) {  //loop $len no. of times

   $whichChar = rand(1,3);  //choose if its a caps, lcase or num

   if ($whichChar == 1) { //it's a number

      $string .= chr(rand(48,57));  //randomly generate a num

   }

   elseif ($whichChar == 2) { //it's a small letter

      $string .= chr(rand(65,90));  //randomly generate an lcase

   }

   else { //it's a capital letter

      $string .= chr(rand(97,122));  //randomly generate a ucase

   }

}



echo $string;  //echo out the generated string

erdem at a1tradenetwork dot com
17-May-2006 02:16


I have a new characters table. i want send it below that.



<?php

$color = "#f1f1f1";

echo "<center>";

echo "<h1>From 32 To 255 Characters Table</h1>";

echo "</center>";

echo "<table border=\"0\" style=\"font-family:verdana;font-size:11px;\"".

     " align=\"center\" width=\"800\"><tr style=\"font-weight:bold;\"  ".

     "bgcolor=\"#99cccc\">".

     "<td width=\"15\">DEC</td><td width=\"15\">OCT</td>".

     "<td width=\"15\">HEX</td><td width=\"15\">CHR</td>".

     

     "<td width=\"15\">DEC</td><td width=\"15\">OCT</td>".

     "<td width=\"15\">HEX</td><td width=\"15\">CHR</td>".

     

     "<td width=\"15\">DEC</td><td width=\"15\">OCT</td>".

     "<td width=\"15\">HEX</td><td width=\"15\">CHR</td>".

     

     "<td width=\"15\">DEC</td><td width=\"15\">OCT</td>".

     "<td width=\"15\">HEX</td><td width=\"15\">CHR</td>".

     

     "<td width=\"15\">DEC</td><td width=\"15\">OCT</td>".

     "<td width=\"15\">HEX</td><td width=\"15\">CHR</td>".

     

     "<td width=\"15\">DEC</td><td width=\"15\">OCT</td>".

     "<td width=\"15\">HEX</td><td width=\"15\">CHR</td>".

     

     

     "</tr><tr>";

$ii = 0;

for ($i=32;$i<=255;$i++){

    $char = chr($i);    

    $dec  = ord($char);

    if ($i == "32") {

        $char = "Space";

    }

    echo "<td style=\"background-color:$color;width:15px;\">".

         $dec."</td>\n<td style=\"background-color:$color;".

         "width:15px;text-align:left;\">".decoct($dec)."</td>\n".

         "<td style=\"background-color:$color;width:15px;".

         "text-align:left;\">".dechex($dec)."</td>\n ".

         "<td style=\"background-color:$color;width:15px;".

         "text-align:left;\"><b>".$char."</b></td>\n ";



    if (($ii % 6) == 5) {

    echo "</tr>\n<tr>\n";

    

    }

   

   if (($ii % 2) == 1) {

         $color = "#f1f1f1";

    }else {

         $color = "#ffffcc";

    }

    

    $ii++;

}

echo "</tr></table>";

?>

daniel vorhauer
11-Nov-2005 04:19


i was happy to find matthews function for replacing those nasty word copy-n-paste characters, but i did have problems using it, since it is not very performant, when it comes to cleaning large amounts of text.



therefore i implemented this function as a replacement, which basically does the same job, but only uses one call to preg_replace - for whom it may concern :)



note: the \xnn values are hex-values of the according ascii-codes, the following implementation matched my needs - feel free to correct me

 

function clean_string_input($input)

{

    $search = array(

        '/[\x60\x82\x91\x92\xb4\xb8]/i',             // single quotes

        '/[\x84\x93\x94]/i',                         // double quotes

        '/[\x85]/i',                                 // ellipsis ...

        '/[\x00-\x0d\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f\x7f-\x9f]/i'    // all other non-ascii

    );

    $replace = array(

        '\'',

        '"',

        '...',

        ''

    );

    return preg_replace($search,$replace,$input);

}

Matthew Flint
31-Oct-2005 06:59


I wrote the following function to clean illegal characters from input strings.



(Background: I have a php-based news website. People were writing articles in MS Word, then copy-and-pasting the text into the website. Word uses non-standard characters for opening and closing quotes and double-quotes, and for "..." - and this was resulting in articles on the website that failed XHTML validation)



<?php

function clean_string_input($input)

{

    $interim = strip_tags($input);



    if(get_magic_quotes_gpc())

    {

        $interim=stripslashes($interim);

    }



    // now check for pure ASCII input

    // special characters that might appear here:

    //   96: opening single quote (not strictly illegal, but substitute anyway)

    //   145: opening single quote

    //   146: closing single quote

    //   147: opening double quote

    //   148: closing double quote

    //   133: ellipsis (...)

    //   163: pound sign (this is safe, so no substitution required)

    // these can be substituted for safe equivalents

    $result = '';

    for ($i=0; $i<strlen($interim); $i++)

    {

        $char = $interim{$i};

        $asciivalue = ord($char);

        if ($asciivalue == 96)

        {

            $result .= '\\'';

        }

        else if (($asciivalue > 31 && $asciivalue < 127) ||

                 ($asciivalue == 163) || // pound sign

                 ($asciivalue == 10) || // lf

                 ($asciivalue == 13)) // cr

        {

            // it's already safe ASCII

            $result .= $char;

        }

        else if ($asciivalue == 145) // opening single quote

        {

            $result .= '\\'';

        }

        else if ($asciivalue == 146) // closing single quote

        {

            $result .= ''';

        }

        else if ($asciivalue == 147) // opening double quote

        {

            $result .= '"';

        }

        else if ($asciivalue == 148) // closing double quote

        {

            $result .= '"';

        }

        else if ($asciivalue == 133) // ellipsis

        {

            $result .= '...';

        }

    }



    return $result;

}

?>

zhangweiwu at realss dot com
25-Aug-2005 02:07


For getting UTF16 value of Chinese ideographs:



PLEASE ALWAYS use the uniord() ng4rrjanbiah at rediffmail dot com (#46267) but do not use #42778's method.



native mbstring has problem with Chinese charset. For simplified Chinese it only (afaik) can deal with characters with GB2312 charset, that means a lot of person names will fail.



for example, if you pass U+97E1  to uniord as provided by #42778 you will get value is 'E1', this is incorrect. the '97' part is ignored by mbstring when doing conversion. 



another suggestion is never use mb_convert_encoding for simplified Chinese at all. Use iconv instead. I am the one in greater trouble with it because my own name gets lots everytime mbstring wishing to convert something.

Nguyen Van Nhu
11-Aug-2005 08:17


A function to convert a unicode-string to ascii-string of the Vietnamese langague, according to The VIQR Convention (http://www.vietstd.org/). If you have the same kind of convention just create the arrays. Contents of my arrays were to large to post here.



//ascii-sign-characters

$mapsigns2 =Array("sign");



//ascii-sign-characters

$mapsigns1 =Array("sign");



//ascii-letters-characters

$mapascii =Array("letters");



//unicode characters

$mapunicode = Array("unicode");



function uniword2ascii($str)

{

global $mapsigns1, $mapsigns2,$mapunicode, $mapascii;

    $length = strlen($str);

    $ReturnStr = "";

    for ($i=0; $i<$length; $i++)

        {

          $uniord = 0;

          if (ord($str{$i})>=0 && ord($str{$i})<=127)

           $uniord = ord($str{$i});

          elseif (ord($str{$i})>=192 && ord($str{$i})<=223)

               {

               $uniord = (ord($str{$i})-192)*64 + (ord($str{$i+1})-128);

            $i = $i+1;

              }

          elseif (ord($str{$i})>=224 && ord($str{$i})<=239)

              {

               $uniord = (ord($str{$i})-224)*4096 + (ord($str{$i+1})-128)*64 + (ord($str{$i+2})-128);

            $i = $i+2;

              }

          elseif (ord($str{$i})>=240 && ord($str{$i})<=247)

              {

               $uniord = (ord($str{$i})-240)*262144 + (ord($str{$i+1})-128)*4096 + (ord($str{$i+2})-128)*64 + (ord($str{$i+3})-128);

              $i = $i+3;

            }

          elseif (ord($str{$i})>=248 && ord($str{$i})<=251)

               {

               $uniord = (ord($str{$i})-248)*16777216 + (ord($str{$i+1})-128)*262144 + (ord($str{$i+2})-128)*4096 + (ord($str{$i+3})-128)*64 + (ord($str{$i+4})-128);

              $i = $i+4;

            }

          elseif (ord($str{$i})>=252 && ord($str{$i})<=253)

              {

               $uniord = (ord($str{$i})-252)*1073741824 + (ord($str{$i+1})-128)*16777216 + (ord($str{$i+2})-128)*262144 + (ord($str{$i+3})-128)*4096 + (ord($str{$i+4})-128)*64 + (ord($str{$i+5})-128);

              $i = $i+5;

            }

          elseif (ord($str{$i})>=254 && ord($str{$i})<=255) //error

           $uniord = 0;

//This part is for converting the string to a VIQR-string;

         if ($uniord > 127 )

             {

            $key = array_search($uniord,$mapunicode);

            if ($key)

                {

                $ReturnStr .= chr($mapascii[$key]) . chr($mapsigns1[$key]) . chr($mapsigns2[$key]);

                }

            else

                {

                $ReturnStr .= chr($uniord);

                }

            }

        else

            {

            $ReturnStr .= chr($uniord);

            }

         //endOFfor

         }

 return $ReturnStr;

}



Best regards/Nguyen Van Nhu

Siegert Naber
23-Mar-2005 09:08


The email-encoding function, a little extended:



# $strEmail. The E-mail address to encode.

# $strDisplay. What will be displayed in the browser. If omitted it takes the e-mail address as it's value.

# $blnCreateLink. Set to true to creates a link. Set to false (and omit $strDisplay) just displays the e-mail address.



function asciiEncodeEmail($strEmail,$strDisplay,$blnCreateLink) {

    $strMailto = "&#109;&#097;&#105;&#108;&#116;&#111;&#058;";

    for ($i=0; $i < strlen($strEmail); $i++) {

        $strEncodedEmail .= "&#".ord(substr($strEmail,$i)).";";

    }

    if(strlen(trim($strDisplay))>0) {

        $strDisplay = $strDisplay;

    }

    else {

        $strDisplay = $strEncodedEmail;

    }

    if($blnCreateLink) {

        return "<a href=\"".$strMailto.$strEncodedEmail."\">".$strDisplay."</a>";

    }

    else {

        return $strDisplay;

    }

}



#examples:

echo asciiEncodeEmail("yourname@yourdomain.com","Your Name",true);

echo "<br />"

echo asciiEncodeEmail("yourname@yourdomain.com","",true);

echo "<br />"

echo asciiEncodeEmail("yourname@yourdomain.com","",false);

skissane at gmail dot com
08-Mar-2005 11:16


Contrary to what jacobfri says below, ord does not use any particular character encoding. It simply converts bytes from a string type to the corresponding integer. These bytes could be characters in ASCII, or some other 7/8-bit code (e.g. ISO-8859-1), or bytes making up characters in some multibyte code (e.g. UTF-8). It all depends on what character encoding your application is using.

01-Mar-2005 10:12


Function using ord() to strip out garbage characters and punctuation from a string. This is handy when trying to be smart about what an input is "trying" to be..

<?



function cleanstr($string){

    $len = strlen($string);

    for($a=0; $a<$len; $a++){

        $p = ord($string[$a]);

        # chr(32) is space, it is preserved..

        (($p > 64 && $p < 123) || $p == 32) ? $ret .= $string[$a] : $ret .= "";

    }

    return $ret;

}



?>

ng4rrjanbiah at rediffmail dot com
05-Oct-2004 04:01


[Fixed a bug in my previous note; ord() is missing in first condition]



uniord() function like "v0rbiz at yahoo dot com" (Note# 42778), but without using mbstring extension. Note: If the passed character is not valid, it may throw "Uninitialized string offset" notice (may set the error reporting to 0).



<?php

/**

 * @Algorithm: http://www1.tip.nl/~t876506/utf8tbl.html

 * @Logic: UTF-8 to Unicode conversion

 **/

function uniord($c)

{

  $ud = 0;

  if (ord($c{0})>=0 && ord($c{0})<=127)

   $ud = ord($c{0});

  if (ord($c{0})>=192 && ord($c{0})<=223)

   $ud = (ord($c{0})-192)*64 + (ord($c{1})-128);

  if (ord($c{0})>=224 && ord($c{0})<=239)

   $ud = (ord($c{0})-224)*4096 + (ord($c{1})-128)*64 + (ord($c{2})-128);

  if (ord($c{0})>=240 && ord($c{0})<=247)

   $ud = (ord($c{0})-240)*262144 + (ord($c{1})-128)*4096 + (ord($c{2})-128)*64 + (ord($c{3})-128);

  if (ord($c{0})>=248 && ord($c{0})<=251)

   $ud = (ord($c{0})-248)*16777216 + (ord($c{1})-128)*262144 + (ord($c{2})-128)*4096 + (ord($c{3})-128)*64 + (ord($c{4})-128);

  if (ord($c{0})>=252 && ord($c{0})<=253)

   $ud = (ord($c{0})-252)*1073741824 + (ord($c{1})-128)*16777216 + (ord($c{2})-128)*262144 + (ord($c{3})-128)*4096 + (ord($c{4})-128)*64 + (ord($c{5})-128);

  if (ord($c{0})>=254 && ord($c{0})<=255) //error

   $ud = false;

 return $ud;

}



//debug

echo uniord('A'); //65

echo uniord("\xe0\xae\xb4"); //2996

?>



HTH,

R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah

bisqwit at iki dot fi
18-Jun-2004 11:23


In reply to jacobfri, the range 128-255 equals to whatever character set you are using.

Try toying with header('Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1'); and replacing that iso-8859-1 with values like cp850, and suddenly your bytes might start looking surprisingly similar to the ones at www.asciitable.com.

Strings don't store glyphs. They only store bytes. It's the matter of your UA/terminal of deciding what alphabets those bytes are made to look like.

That's where the character set/encoding steps in.

jacobfri at skydebanen dot net
04-Jun-2004 08:10


Just to get things straight about which character table ord() and chr() uses.

The range 128-255 is _not_ equivalent with the widely used extended ASCII-table, like the one described in www.asciitable.com. The actual equivalent is the 128-255 range of Unicode.

That's a good thing, because then ord() and chr() is compatible with javascript, and any other language that uses Unicode.

But it's rather nice to know it, and the description of ord() is kind of misleading, when it only refers to www.asciitable.com.

v0rbiz at yahoo dot com
29-May-2004 07:15


I did not found a unicode/multibyte capable 'ord' function, so...



function uniord($u) {

    $k = mb_convert_encoding($u, 'UCS-2LE', 'UTF-8');

    $k1 = ord(substr($k, 0, 1));

    $k2 = ord(substr($k, 1, 1));

    return $k2 * 256 + $k1;

}

merwetta_at_hotmail.com
18-Aug-2002 12:01


In the notes for bin2hex, there is a function for hex encoding an email address in a "mailto" tag to avoid spam bots. The hex encoding works in the anchor tag itself, but not for the link text. To display the email address as the link text, you can use the function below to ascii encode the address and keep the spam bots at bay.



function ascii_encode($string)  {

    for ($i=0; $i < strlen($string); $i++)  {

        $encoded .= '&#'.ord(substr($string,$i)).';';    

    }

    return $encoded;

}

adam at adeptsoftware dot com
17-Jun-2002 12:05


The above comment about bindec is wrong, I think.  bindec accepts a string containing a binary number, not a "binary string" - right?

We need to clean up this terminology.



If you just want to extract a dword/long int from a binary string, this is more accurate (intel endian):



$Number = ord($Buffer{0}) | (ord($Buffer{1})<<8) | (ord($Buffer{2})<<16) | (ord($Buffer{3})<<24);

carl at nospam dot thep dot lu dot se
17-Aug-2001 03:06


If you find that you use this function a lot you really out to consider doing whatever you're doing in C instead. :-)


At least it takes more effort to type "ord($var)-ord('a')" than "var - 'a'".


But hey, you can't get everything you wish for, and at least PHP script very seldom manage to segfault. :-D

theanimus at btconnect dot com
07-Jul-2001 02:01


[Ed: bindec() does this for you... it only doesn't get the sign-bit. Your solution will result in a float with the sign is set!


http://www.php.net/bindec


--jeroen ]





Erm this one took me a while to work out, in the end a friend told me, if ur working out the value of an 32bit integer ($data) then this is 4 u ;-)





$num=ord($data[0])+(ord($data[1])<<8)+(ord($data[2])<<16)+(ord($data[3])<<24);


if ($num>=4294967294){


$num-=4294967296;


}

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