How do I get the byte values of a string in PHP?

Question

Say I have a string in php, that prints out to a text file like this:

nÖ§9q1Fª£

How do I get the byte codes of this to my text file rather than the funky asc

Answer 1

If You wish to get the string as an array of integer codes, there's a nice one-liner:

unpack('C*', $string)

Beware, the resulting array is indexed from 1, not from 0!