<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >crc32</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="String functions" HREF="ref.strings.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="count_chars" HREF="function.count-chars.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="crypt" HREF="function.crypt.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.count-chars.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.crypt.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.crc32" ></A >crc32</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN89214" ></A ><P > (PHP 4 >= 4.0.1)</P >crc32 -- Calculates the crc32 polynomial of a string</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN89217" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >int <B CLASS="methodname" >crc32</B > ( string str)<BR ></BR ><P > Generates the cyclic redundancy checksum polynomial of 32-bit lengths of the <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >str</I ></TT >. This is usually used to validate the integrity of data being transmitted. </P ><P > <DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B > Because PHP's integer type is signed, and many crc32 checksums will result in negative integers, you need to use the "%u" formatter of <A HREF="function.sprintf.html" ><B CLASS="function" >sprintf()</B ></A > or <A HREF="function.printf.html" ><B CLASS="function" >printf()</B ></A > to get the string representation of the unsigned crc32 checksum. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV > This second example shows how to print a converted checksum with the <A HREF="function.printf.html" ><B CLASS="function" >printf()</B ></A > function : <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN89233" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. Displaying a crc32 checksum</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" ><?php $checksum = crc32("The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog."); printf("%u\n", $checksum); ?></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.md5.html" ><B CLASS="function" >md5()</B ></A > </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.count-chars.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.crypt.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >count_chars</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.strings.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >crypt</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >