pack/unpack in PHP

[Joe Stump]

I just answered my own question and it's pretty retarded:

$arr = unpack("a4magic/Ntype/Nlen", $header);

So, evidently, the syntax isn't *quite* like the Perl syntax :)

--Joe

On Oct 12, 2007, at 3:41 PM, Joe Stump wrote:

> I'm working on a PHP library for us to use here at Digg and was  
> hoping someone could help me out with some of the basics. I can  
> pack up and send a request over no problemo and I get a response,  
> but unpacking with:
>
>     $header = fread($fp, 12);
>     $arr = unpack("a4NN", $header);
>
> Doesn't quite work (PHP uses the same pack/unpack as Perl so I'm  
> running off of that example). The response I get, according to bvi  
> anyways, appears to be valid in that I get a null byte, RES, 0, 0,  
> 0, 17, 0, 0, 0, 10 (I'm sending 'helloworld', which is 10 bytes).
>
> The $arr is:
>
> Array
> (
>     [NN] => RES
> )
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --Joe
>
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