Algorithm to get the excel-like column name of a number

Question

I\'m working on a script that generate some Excel documents and I need to convert a number into its column name equivalent. For example:

1 => A
2 => B
         


        

Answer 1

Late answer, but here's what I did (for 1==A indexed):

function num_to_letters($num, $uppercase = true) {
    $letters = '';
    while ($num > 0) {
        $code = ($num % 26 == 0) ? 26 : $num % 26;
        $letters .= chr($code + 64);
        $num = ($num - $code) / 26;
    }
    return ($uppercase) ? strtoupper(strrev($letters)) : strrev($letters);
}

Then if you want to convert the other way:

function letters_to_num($letters) {
    $num = 0;
    $arr = array_reverse(str_split($letters));

    for ($i = 0; $i < count($arr); $i++) {
        $num += (ord(strtolower($arr[$i])) - 96) * (pow(26,$i));
    }
    return $num;
}