ebcdic2ascii

[simulant]

I need a function that will convert EBCDIC to ASCII. I found the ebcdic2ascii() function, but in the PHP 4 documentation, it says:

(PHP 3>= 3.0.17)
...available only on EBCDIC based operating systems (OS/390, BS2000)

So I assume this to mean that it's not available for PHP 4. We have PHP installed on an AIX Unix machine with Apache. Would this function even work?? We receive reports off of another system that are in ebcdic format and they need to be displayed on a web page, so I need a function that will convert them to ascii.
I noticed that there is a Perl module, "Convert::Ebcdic", that contains the ebcdic2ascii() function. Is it possible for me to "include" this module in my PHP script??

Thanks!

• TIM

[nigel_belanger]

You can include a module in your script using the dl(); command:

see

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.dl.php

for more information.

Let me know what you come with for the conversion - I can use that as well.

Good luck!

-n

[Anon]

You could port Convert::Ebcdic to PHP... Perl-PHP is frequently simple enough...

You can see if it exists by testing it with if(function_exists('ebcdic2ascii'))
{echo 'EBCDIC-ASCII conversion available';
}else
{echo 'EBCDIC-ASCII conversion not available';
}