The
ord() string function in PHP is used to access the ASCII representation of the first character in a string. This function takes one parameter which is the string.
<?php
$char = "a";
$charCode = ord($char);
echo $charCode."<br />";
$char = "z";
$charCode = ord($char);
echo $charCode."<br />";
$char = "$";
$charCode = ord($char);
echo $charCode."<br />";
$char = "@";
$charCode = ord($char);
echo $charCode."<br />";
?>
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