I'm investigating encodings in PHP5. Is there some way to get a raw hex dump of a string? i.e. a hex representation of each of the bytes (not characters) in a string?
Hexdump is a utility that displays the contents of binary files in hexadecimal, decimal, octal, or ASCII. It's a utility for inspection and can be used for data recovery, reverse engineering, and programming.
The bin2hex() function converts a string of ASCII characters to hexadecimal values. The string can be converted back using the pack() function.
echo bin2hex($string);
or:
for ($i = 0; $i < strlen($string); $i++) { echo str_pad(dechex(ord($string[$i])), 2, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT); }
$string
is the variable which contains input.
For debugging work with binary protocols, I needed a more traditional HEX dump, so I wrote this function:
function hex_dump($data, $newline="\n") { static $from = ''; static $to = ''; static $width = 16; # number of bytes per line static $pad = '.'; # padding for non-visible characters if ($from==='') { for ($i=0; $i<=0xFF; $i++) { $from .= chr($i); $to .= ($i >= 0x20 && $i <= 0x7E) ? chr($i) : $pad; } } $hex = str_split(bin2hex($data), $width*2); $chars = str_split(strtr($data, $from, $to), $width); $offset = 0; foreach ($hex as $i => $line) { echo sprintf('%6X',$offset).' : '.implode(' ', str_split($line,2)) . ' [' . $chars[$i] . ']' . $newline; $offset += $width; } }
This produces a more traditional HEX dump, like this:
hex_dump($data); => 0 : 05 07 00 00 00 64 65 66 61 75 6c 74 40 00 00 00 [.....default@...] 10 : 31 42 38 43 39 44 30 34 46 34 33 36 31 33 38 33 [1B8C9D04F4361383] 20 : 46 34 36 32 32 46 33 39 32 46 44 38 43 33 42 30 [F4622F392FD8C3B0] 30 : 45 34 34 43 36 34 30 33 36 33 35 37 45 35 33 39 [E44C64036357E539] 40 : 43 43 38 44 35 31 34 42 44 36 39 39 46 30 31 34 [CC8D514BD699F014]
Note that non-visible characters are replaced with a period - you can change the number of bytes per line ($width) and padding character ($pad) to suit your needs. I included a $newline argument, so you can pass "<br/>"
if you need to display the output in a browser.
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