Posted by Justin Koivisto on 10/10/05 20:40

Womble wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I need to work out the length of a message in network byte order.
>
> Does PHP have an equivalent function of htons and ntohs?
>
> I've searched all the PHP documentation but have so far drawn a blank.
>

I've never used function like that before, but I believe that you may be
able to do it with the pack() function using the correct format. IIRC,
network byte order is big endian, so you;d want to look at n for 16 bit
unsigned short and N for 32-bit unsigned long.

HTH

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