PHP: encoding/decoding

[stevekapaun01]

I have been working on an encoding/decoding project for my site. I want to offer my users the choice between base64 and hex encoding/decoding. In PHP, both base64 encode/decode work fine and bin2hex works fine as well. But, when I try to use hex2bin in PHP, I get an internal server error. I've check my error and it says PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function hex2bin().

I recently did a PHP to JavaScript conversion of both base64 and hex encoding/decoding. I have the Javascript for the hex below. I tried to convert it back to PHP but I'm at a loss on the 10th line with charCodeAt and toString. I was wondering if anybody might be able to take this code and do a Javascript to PHP conversion for me. What I mean to say is that I need a way to do bin2hex() and hex2bin() in PHP without having to actually use these two functions.

var Hex = {
    // PHP to JavaScript bin2hex
    encode : function(input) {
        // Replace tab characters with spaces and end-of-line markers with '~EOL'
        input = _str_replace([new RegExp("\t","g"), new RegExp("\n","g")], ["        ", "~EOL"], input);
        var r = '';
        var i = 0;
        var h;
        while(i < input.length) {
            h = input.charCodeAt(i++).toString(16);
            while(h.length < 2) {
                h = h;
            }
            r += h;
        }
        return r;
    },
    // PHP to JavaScript hex2bin
    decode : function(input) {
        var r = '';
        for(var i = 0; i < input.length; i += 2) {
            r += unescape('%'+input.substr(i, 2));
        }
        // Change back end-of-line markers
        r = _str_replace(new RegExp("~EOL", "g"), "\n", r);
        return r;
    },
    is_hex:function(str) {
        var check;
        if(str.length%2 != 0) { return false; }
        for(var i = 0; i < str.length; i++) {
            check = str[i].charCodeAt();
            //          0             9               a              f               A             F
            if((check < 48 || check > 57) && (check < 97 || check > 102) && (check < 65 || check > 70)) {
                return false;
            }
        }
        return true;
    }
};

If it looks like it can't be done, does anybody know of any other encoding/decoding functions in PHP that I can use instead of the hex functions.

[stevekapaun01]

I think I got a pretty good substitue here, it's not an exact conversion but it works fine for me.

I found it after combing the long reaches of the internet and I'm glad I did. Here is the link: http://fiddyp.co.uk/code-to-reverse-a-bin2hex-function/. I'll also post the code here as well.

function hex2bin($data) {
    //function URL: http://fiddyp.co.uk/code-to-reverse-a-bin2hex-function/
    //function author: Andy Bailey
    $len = strlen($data);
    for($i=0;$i<$len;$i+=2) {
        $newdata .= pack("C",hexdec(substr($data,$i,2)));
    }
    return $newdata;
} 

I've tested the code many times and it works just fine every time.