Code conversion in PHP

[Tazz]

I don't really know how to explain this, I saw once on some forum members signature, something like this :

G = "\ x50 \ x72 \ 157 \ 144 \ x75 \ x63 \ 164 \ x20 \ x6c \ x69 \ 143 \ 145 \ 156 \ x73 \ 145 \ 040 \ x68 \ 141 \ x73 \ 040 \ x65 \ x78 \ 160 \. 151 \ 162 \ x65 \ 144 \ x2e \ x20 "+ E.

 

That somehow translates into words, I know there is a PHP function to convert that, what is that code called and what is the PHP function?

[ras1986]

i think it's settype()

[Tazz]

Hi ras1896

 

Thanks for the reply, but thats not what I was looking for.

[ras1986]

i found this by googling... not sure if this helps...

For primitives just use (string)$var or print this variable straight away. PHP is dynamically typed language and variable will be casted to string on the fly.

If you want to convert objects to strings you will need to define __toString() method that returns string. This method is forbidden to throw exceptions.

[Tazz]

How does it work, how are the letters represented?  Is there some sort of formula that I can use to figure out what code is assigned to which letter?