Represent MD5 hash as an integer
问题 In my user database table, I take the MD5 hash of the email address of a user as the id. Example: email(example@example.org) = id(d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e) Unfortunately, I have to represent the ids as integer values now - in order to be able to use an API where the id can only be an integer. Now I'm looking for a way to encode the id into an integer for sending an decode it again when receiving. How could I do this? My ideas so far: convert_uuencode() and convert_uudecode() for the