PHP baseconvert custom user input?

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  1. #1
    I've been trying to make a base converter that allows a guest to input a custom frombase and tobase, but every time I try to code these values as variables determined by the form, I get an error.
    Is it possible to do what I'm trying to do, or should I settle for just having the frombase and tobase limited to the common options?
     
    xparasite9, Jul 16, 2008 IP
  2. riamathews

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    Are you taking about php base64 encoding and decoding ??

    <?php
    $str = 'This is an encoded string';
    echo base64_encode($str);
    ?>
    The above example will output:
    VGhpcyBpcyBhbiBlbmNvZGVkIHN0cmluZw==

    To Decode:
    <?php
    $str = 'VGhpcyBpcyBhbiBlbmNvZGVkIHN0cmluZw==';
    echo base64_decode($str);
    ?>

    The above example will output:
    This is an encoded string
     
    riamathews, Jul 16, 2008 IP
  3. el_jentel1

    el_jentel1 Peon

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    You basically want to make two forms, one to decode and one to encode right? I'm new to PHP but it should be pretty simple to make.

    Create a file called base.php and put this in it

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Encode &amp; Decode</title>
</head>
<body>
Encode:<br />
<form action="base.php" method="post">
<input name="encode" size="50" />&nbsp;<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
<br />

Decode:<br />
<form action="base.php" method="post">
<input name="decode" size="50" />&nbsp;<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
<br />

<?php 
$encode = $_POST['encode'];
$decode = $_POST['decode'];

if ($encode == true) {
   echo base64_encode($encode);
}

elseif ($decode == true) { 
   echo base64_decode($decode);
}
?>

</body>
</html>
    Code (markup):
     
    el_jentel1, Jul 17, 2008 IP