dechex()

The dechex() method returns a hexadecimal (base-) string representation of an unsigned integer. Hexadecimals are compact and can be converted easily to binary.

Syntax

dechex(number)

• number: An integer to be converted to hexadecimal.

Note: The largest unsigned integer that can be represented in PHP is PHP_INT_MAX * 2 + 1 which is 4294967295. This is because PHP uses 32 bits to represent integers, and the first bit is used to represent the sign of the integer.

Example

In this example, the number 10 is converted to hexadecimal.

<?php
  $hex = dechex(10);
  echo $hex;
?>

The output looks like this:

a

Because dechex() works with unsigned integers, negative numbers will be converted to their unsigned counterparts.

<?php
  $hex = dechex(-10);
  echo $hex;
?>

The output looks like this:

fffffff6

In the example above, the hexadecimal representation of -10 is fffffff6. This is because the largest unsigned integer that can be represented in PHP is 4294967295. When -10 is converted to an unsigned integer, it becomes 4294967286. The hexadecimal representation of 4294967286 is ffffffff6.

Note: The result in the code above, of ffffffff6, is conditional on using a 32-bit platform.

Codebyte Example

The following codebyte example gets the hexadecimal representation of the decimal number 16.

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