(PHP ActiveX) 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.

Chilkat ActiveX Downloads ActiveX for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Note: The php_com_dotnet.dll may need to be enabled inside of php.ini.

<?php

// 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.
// For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use new COM('Chilkat_9_5_0.Chilkat.StringBuilder')
$sb1 = new COM("Chilkat.StringBuilder");
$success = $sb1->DecodeAndAppend($nameWindows1252UrlEncoded,'url','windows-1252');

// For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use new COM('Chilkat_9_5_0.Chilkat.StringBuilder')
$sb2 = new COM("Chilkat.StringBuilder");
$success = $sb2->DecodeAndAppend($nameUtf8UrlEncoded,'url','utf-8');

// sb1 and sb2 both hold the same string.
$bEqual = $sb1->ContentsEqualSb($sb2,1);
print 'bEqual = ' . $bEqual . "\n";

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

?>