Best way to list Alphabetical(A-Z) using PHP

Question

I need to print/list alphabetical(A-Z) chararcters to manage Excel cells. Is there any PHP function to list alphabetic?

I need result as

A1
B1
C1
D1
..         


        

Answer 1

I made a constant time function as follows

This function gives the Alphabetic representation of a numeric index

public static $alpha = ['A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F', 'G', 'H', 'I', 'J', 'K', 'L', 'M', 'N', 'O', 'P', 'Q', 'R', 'S', 'T', 'U', 'V', 'W', 'X', 'Y', 'Z'];

public static function getColName($index){
  $index--;
  $nAlphabets = 26;
  $f = floor($index/pow($nAlphabets,0)) % $nAlphabets;
  $s = (floor($index/pow($nAlphabets,1)) % $nAlphabets)-1;
  $t = (floor($index/pow($nAlphabets,2)) % $nAlphabets)-1;

  $f = $f < 0 ? '' : self::$alpha[$f];
  $s = $s < 0 ? '' : self::$alpha[$s];
  $t = $t < 0 ? '' : self::$alpha[$t];

  return trim("{$t}{$s}{$f}");

}

Now if you want to use it create a range. you can call this function in a loop pushing your values to an array.

As for most of the time, we need the representation rather than a range this function would work just fine.

HOW TO USE

Just enclose these static functions in a class and use it as

className::getColName(47);

Making a range in my case was a waste of memory.

Answer 2

$len = 0;
for ($char = 'A'; $char <= 'Z'; $char++) {
    $len++;
    if ($len == 26) {
        break;
    }
    echo $char;
}

Answer 3

range() supports letters since PHP 4.1, so you can do this:

$azRange = range('A', 'Z');
foreach ($azRange as $letter)
{
  print("$letter\n");
}

Answer 4

This:

$range = range("A", "Z");
for ($i=1; i<=100; i++) {
    foreach ($range as $letter) {
      print("$letter$i\n");
    }
}

will print you all the combinations:
A1
B1
C1
... ...
... ...
V100
W100
Z100

Modify the ranges accordingly to your needs.

Answer 5

here's my code for HTML using P.H.P code, and it works fine

for($i = 'a' ; $i <= 'z' ; $i++){
echo $i. "<br />"; }

Answer 6

this code results your requirements....

<?php 
        $x= 'A';
            for($i=0;$i<26;$i++)
            {
                echo $x."<br/>";//generates A,B,C,D...Z
                $x++;
                if($i == 25)
                {
                    $x = 'A';
                    $y = '1';
                    for($j=0;$j<26;$j++)
                    {
                        echo $x.$y."<br />";//generates A1,B1...Z1
                        $x++;
                        if($j == 25)
                        { 
                            $x = 'A';
                            $y++;
                            for($k=0;$k<26;$k++)
                            {
                               echo $x.$y."<br />";//generates A2,B2....Z2
                               $x++; 
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        ?>