PHP

Decode from Binary Encoding and Append String

Demonstrates how to decode from a binary encoding (base64, hex, url, etc.) and then append the decoded string to a Chilkat StringBuilder object.

Note: This example uses the new DecodeAndAppend method added in Chilkat v9.5.0.87.

Chilkat2 PHP

<?php

use Chilkat2\StringBuilder;

// We have the string "MÆRSK" in two forms:

// This is the URL encoding of the windows-1252 representation.
$nameWindows1252UrlEncoded = 'M%C6RSK';

// This is the URL encoding of the utf-8 representation.
$nameUtf8UrlEncoded = 'M%C3%86RSK';

// Note that the result of loading a string into a string object
// is the same if we correctly specify the underlying charset encoding.
// In the above example, we have the same string, but in different charset encodings
// subsequently URL encoded.
$sb1 = new StringBuilder();
$sb1->DecodeAndAppend($nameWindows1252UrlEncoded, 'url', 'windows-1252');

$sb2 = new StringBuilder();
$sb2->DecodeAndAppend($nameUtf8UrlEncoded, 'url', 'utf-8');

// sb1 and sb2 both hold the same string.
$bEqual = $sb1->ContentsEqualSb($sb2, true);
echo 'bEqual = ', ($bEqual ? 'true' : 'false'), "\n";

// We can see the string is "MÆRSK" in both cases.
echo $sb1->GetAsString(), "\n";
echo $sb2->GetAsString(), "\n";