[SOLVED] decoding bin2hex headaches

[icetomyst]

OK what im trying to do is unpack some bin2hex data from an xml document and print it into a phpnuke block and i need to be able to apply html formatting to it.

The document being: http://www.pbbans.com/sigs/142.xml

 

The printing part works fine, but I can't seem to get a hex2bin function to unpack the data properly.

 

I've tried quite a few things, this being the latest:

 

//the dreaded function
function hex2bin($hexdata){
for( $i = 0; $i < strlen( $hexdata ); $i += 2 )
eval( '$bindata .= "\x' . substr( $hexdata, $i, 2 ) . '";' );
return $bindata;
}
//get the data and print it
ob_start(); 
include("http://www.pbbans.com/sigs/142.xml");
$output = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean(); 
$content = hex2bin($output);

 

BUT it ends up returning this:

 

\x \x <\xGR\xOU\xP_\xNA\xME\x>4g&r6öÇWF–ö<\x/G\xRO\xUP\x_N M>\x \x6g2<\x/G\xRO\xUP\x_T G\x> \x <\xGR\xOU\xP_\xWW\xW>http://www.et-main.com/\x\x \x7wwræWBÖÖ–âæ6öÒ<\x/G\xRO\xUP\x_W\xWW\x_S\xHO\xRT\x> \x <\xHE*\x_A M\xIN\x>4Ö¶fVÆ <\x/Hê _*\xMI\xN>\x \xMakaveli\x \x <\xTO\xTA\xL_\xSE\xRVR\xS>4\x\x \x3<\x/S\xTRê\xMI\xNG\x_SR\xVE\xRS\x> \x <\xTO\xTA\xL_º\xNS\x>3C<\x/T\xOT L\x_B N\xS>\x \x3dd0133d685dfdd6fa3d4053a0ac4205\x \x <\xLA\xST\x_B N\xNE _\xGU\xID\x_E\xIG\xHT\x>63C#<\x/L S\xT_º\xNNí\x_G\xUI _I\xGH\xT>\x \x72.232.53.174:27960\x \x <\xLA\xST\x_B N\xNE _\xNIK\x>4w#e <\x/L S\xT_º\xNNí\x_N\xIC\xK>\x \xMay 06, 2007\x \x\x

Which does have SOME of the information unpacked, but obviously isn't right.

 

Anyone know how I can resolve this? Thanks in advance.

[Barand]

The data returned is an xml file. Only the data is binhex encoded, the tags are not

[pre]

<stats>

<GROUP_NAME>4672616720536f6c7574696f6e</GROUP_NAME>

<GROUP_TAG>66732e</GROUP_TAG>

<GROUP_WWW>687474703a2f2f7777772e65742d6d61696e2e636f6d2f</GROUP_WWW>

<GROUP_WWW_SHORT>7777772e65742d6d61696e2e636f6d2f</GROUP_WWW_SHORT>

<HEAD_ADMIN>4d616b6176656c69</HEAD_ADMIN>

<ADMIN0>4d616b6176656c69</ADMIN0>

<TOTAL_SERVERS>34</TOTAL_SERVERS>

<STREAMING_SERVERS>33</STREAMING_SERVERS>

<TOTAL_BANS>313436</TOTAL_BANS>

<LAST_BANNED_GUID>3364643031333364363835646664643666613364343035336130616334323035</LAST_BANNED_GUID>

<LAST_BANNED_GUID_EIGHT>6130616334323035</LAST_BANNED_GUID_EIGHT>

<LAST_BANNED_SERVER>37322e3233322e35332e3137343a3237393630</LAST_BANNED_SERVER>

<LAST_BANNED_NICK>477230307659</LAST_BANNED_NICK>

<LAST_BANNED_DATE>4d61792030362c2032303037</LAST_BANNED_DATE>

</stats>

 

[/pre]

 

This function will decode the data (php5)

 

function decodebinhex($hexdata) {
    $res = '';
    $ar = str_split($hexdata,2);
    foreach ($ar as $ch) {
        $res .= chr(hexdec($ch));
    }
    return $res;
}

eg, group name

echo decodebinhex('4672616720536f6c7574696f6e');    // --> Frag Solution

[icetomyst]

ah! brilliant, thank you. Forgot to mention that I'm on php4, just added your function and a function for str_split and it worked like a charm. thanks again.