[geeklog-devel] [geeklog-cvs] Geeklog-1.x/system/classes/authentication LDAP.auth.class.php, NONE, 1.1

[Joe Mucchiello]

At 03:27 PM 5/1/2008, Dirk Haun wrote:
>     function ascii2hex($ascii)
>     {
>         /* Adapted from function courtesy kuukelekuu at gmail dot com,
>          * from http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread519762.html
>          */
>         $hex = '';
>
>         for ($i = 0; $i < strlen($ascii); $i++) {
>             $byte = strtolower(dechex(ord($ascii{$i})));
>             $byte = str_repeat('0', 2 - strlen($byte)) . $byte;
>             $hex .= $byte;
>         }
>
>         return $hex;
>     }

You should not use {$i} to subscript a string since according to the 
PHP manual:

Note: <http://us.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php>Strings 
may also be accessed using braces, as in $str{42}, for the same 
purpose. However, this syntax is deprecated as of PHP 6. Use square 
brackets instead.

Is there some reason this is not just a call to binhex()?

If there is, this saves a lot of calls to strlen/str_repeat and strtolower.
     $hex = '';
     $len = strlen($ascii);
     for ($i = 0; $i < $len; ++$i) {
        $hex .= str_pad(dechex(ord($ascii[$i])), '0', 2, STR_PAD_LEFT);
     }
     return strtolower($hex);

I realize this is adapted code. But during adaptation, one should cut 
down on the cruft of older versions.

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Joe Mucchiello
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