mb_ord()

mb_ord() — Get Unicode code point of character.

Built-in function of PHP 8.5. The manual lists it as available in PHP 7 >= 7.2.0, PHP 8. This page is the reference card: signature, parameters and return value, plus the changelog and the example the manual provides.

What it does

Returns the Unicode code point value of the given character.

Signature

mb_ord(string $string, ?string $encoding = null): int|false

Parameters

ParameterTypeWhat it takes
$stringstringA string
$encoding?stringThe encoding parameter is the character encoding. If it is omitted or null, the internal character encoding value will be used.

Return value

The Unicode code point for the first character of string or false on failure.

Example

A runnable snippet:

var_dump(mb_ord("A", "UTF-8")); var_dump(mb_ord("🐘", "UTF-8")); var_dump(mb_ord("\x80", "ISO-8859-1")); var_dump(mb_ord("\x80", "Windows-1252"));

Output:

int(65) int(128024) int(128) int(8364)

Changelog

VersionChange
8.0.0encoding is nullable now.
8.0.0Now throws a ValueError if encoding is an invalid encoding. Previously, an E_WARNING was emitted and false was returned.

See also

mb_internal_encoding(), mb_chr(), ord()

All PHP 8.5 built-in functions

Reference card built from the PHP manual page mb_ord() (PHP documentation, CC BY 3.0). The page is generated from the manual, so the wording of the parameter and return value text follows php.net.