coverting text into a series of integers??

[nozom]

I want to turn a username such as 'goatey' into a series of integers. i.e.

a=1 b=2 c=3, and so on. so goatey will be 7, 15, 1, 20, 5, 25.

how do i break this word down into those numbers.

ta,
Hugh

[spaddict]

I'm not positive that this will work, but try:

$letter = a;
$number = (int)$letter;

$number will probably be some number, say... 49. If so, then you just need to subtract 48, or say

$number = (int)$letter - 48;

It'd probably be a better idea to define some constant as 48.

This is what I did once when I had to do this same sort of thing in c++ .

[nozom]

It seems to turn every letter into a zero,

any other suggestions??

Ta,
Hugh

[suntra]

$ltr = array(
"a" => 1,
"b" => 2,
"c" => 3,
"d" => 4,
"e" => 5,
"f" => 6,
"g" => 7,
"h" => 8,
"i" => 9,
"j" => 10,
"k" => 11,
"l" => 12,
"m" => 13,
"n" => 14,
"o" => 15,
"p" => 16,
"q" => 17,
"r" => 18,
"s" => 19,
"t" => 20,
"u" => 21,
"v" => 22,
"w" => 23,
"x" => 24,
"y" => 25,
"z" => 26);
$string = "goatey";
$string = strtolower($string);
$new_string = "";
for($i = 0; $i < strlen($string); $i++) {
$letter = substr($string, $i, 1);
$new_string .= $ltr[$letter];
if($i < (strlen($string) - 1)) {
$new_string .= ", ";
}
}
echo $new_string;

[nozom]

I got it before i checked back here, but thanks anyway.

the final code i used was

<?php

// Array initaliser
$Chk_Let = Array();
$Name_String = "$User_IDName";
$Split_Name = preg_split('//', $Name_String, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);

foreach($Split_Name as $The_Let)
{

if ($The_Let == A) { $Chk_Let[] = "1"; }
elseif ($The_Let == a) { $Chk_Let[] = "1"; }
elseif ($The_Let == 😎 { $Chk_Let[] = "2"; }
elseif ($The_Let == b) { $Chk_Let[] = "2"; }
elseif ($The_Let == C) { $Chk_Let[] = "3"; }
elseif ($The_Let == c) { $Chk_Let[] = "3"; }
elseif ($The_Let == D) { $Chk_Let[] = "4"; }
elseif ($The_Let == d) { $Chk_Let[] = "4"; }
elseif ($The_Let == E) { $Chk_Let[] = "5"; }
elseif ($The_Let == e) { $Chk_Let[] = "5"; }
elseif ($The_Let == F) { $Chk_Let[] = "6"; }
elseif ($The_Let == f) { $Chk_Let[] = "6"; }
elseif ($The_Let == G) { $Chk_Let[] = "7"; }
elseif ($The_Let == g) { $Chk_Let[] = "7"; }
elseif ($The_Let == H) { $Chk_Let[] = "8"; }
elseif ($The_Let == h) { $Chk_Let[] = "8"; }
elseif ($The_Let == I) { $Chk_Let[] = "9"; }
elseif ($The_Let == i) { $Chk_Let[] = "9"; }
elseif ($The_Let == J) { $Chk_Let[] = "10"; }
elseif ($The_Let == j) { $Chk_Let[] = "10"; }
elseif ($The_Let == K) { $Chk_Let[] = "11"; }
elseif ($The_Let == k) { $Chk_Let[] = "11"; }
elseif ($The_Let == L) { $Chk_Let[] = "12"; }
elseif ($The_Let == l) { $Chk_Let[] = "12"; }
elseif ($The_Let == M) { $Chk_Let[] = "13"; }
elseif ($The_Let == m) { $Chk_Let[] = "13"; }
elseif ($The_Let == N) { $Chk_Let[] = "14"; }
elseif ($The_Let == n) { $Chk_Let[] = "14"; }
elseif ($The_Let == O) { $Chk_Let[] = "15"; }
elseif ($The_Let == o) { $Chk_Let[] = "15"; }
elseif ($The_Let == P) { $Chk_Let[] = "16"; }
elseif ($The_Let == p) { $Chk_Let[] = "16"; }
elseif ($The_Let == Q) { $Chk_Let[] = "17"; }
elseif ($The_Let == q) { $Chk_Let[] = "17"; }
elseif ($The_Let == R) { $Chk_Let[] = "18"; }
elseif ($The_Let == r) { $Chk_Let[] = "18"; }
elseif ($The_Let == S) { $Chk_Let[] = "19"; }
elseif ($The_Let == s) { $Chk_Let[] = "19"; }
elseif ($The_Let == T) { $Chk_Let[] = "20"; }
elseif ($The_Let == t) { $Chk_Let[] = "20"; }
elseif ($The_Let == U) { $Chk_Let[] = "21"; }
elseif ($The_Let == u) { $Chk_Let[] = "21"; }
elseif ($The_Let == V) { $Chk_Let[] = "22"; }
elseif ($The_Let == v) { $Chk_Let[] = "22"; }
elseif ($The_Let == W) { $Chk_Let[] = "23"; }
elseif ($The_Let == w) { $Chk_Let[] = "23"; }
elseif ($The_Let == X) { $Chk_Let[] = "24"; }
elseif ($The_Let == x) { $Chk_Let[] = "24"; }
elseif ($The_Let == Y) { $Chk_Let[] = "25"; }
elseif ($The_Let == y) { $Chk_Let[] = "25"; }
elseif ($The_Let == Z) { $Chk_Let[] = "26"; }
elseif ($The_Let == z) { $Chk_Let[] = "26"; }
}

$Sub_Tot = 0;

foreach($Chk_Let as $done)
{
$Sub_Tot = $Sub_Tot + $done;
}
$Sub_Tot2 = $Sub_Tot * 100;
$Final_Total = $Sub_Tot2 / 7;
$Rounded = floor($Final_Total);

?>

cheers,
Hugh