note 50147 deleted from function.pack by googleguy

Note Submitter: ---- I needed to convert binary values from a file to integers. Maybe there is something simpler, but the snippets i saw above seemed a little convoluted: function bin2asc ($binary) { $val = 0; for ($i = strlen($binary) - 1; $i >= 0; $i--) { $ch = substr($binary, $i, 1); $val = ($val << 8) | ord($ch); } return $val; } This was called like the following from a binary file: function _readInt($fp) { return bin2asc(fread($fp, 4)); } Note that the for loop should be reversed for network byte order instead of intel byte order. Also the conversion will work with any number of bytes, but will happily overflow.