The ord Function
The ord function returns the ASCII
code of a character. It accepts a single character
or a whole string as a parameter (in which case it returns
the code of its first character).
Syntax
ord(string $character): int
Example
Let's find out the code of the character 'a':
<?php
echo ord('a');
?>
Code execution result:
97
Example
Let's output the code of the first character of the string:
<?php
echo ord('abcde');
?>
Code execution result:
97
See Also
-
the
chrfunction,
which returns a character by its code
