Turn octal to number?

[newbtophp]

Hi,

 

How would I do this, I'm trying to create a function to turn the octal (not sure whats its called exactly) input into its numberic representation, like so:

 

<?php
function octal_to_number($input) {
//do something...
return $number;
}

//would turn 0x17c into 380...
echo octal_to_number('0x17c');
?>

[Alex]

octdec

[newbtophp]

octdec

 

Thanks, but did'nt seem to work, so i looked around and found this handy function -> hexdec() which worked 

 

/Solved