Encode/Convert text to numbers/binary

[Andrew R]

Hi there. 

 

I was wondering if it were possible to convert text to numbers or some sort of URL friendly link. For example, "Hello there" would be converted to '435342553' or whatever.

 

I want to do this because for example when someone goes to this URL, example.com/435343434, the number/uri string would be decoded and whatever the text was it would be displayed on the site.  I can write all this code no bother I just need some advice/ideas on the the encoding/decoding of the text.

 

I was looking at some options for doing this.....

 

hexdec - removes spaces

md5 - cannot be decoded?

 

None of them seem to be working, the problem is decoding them.    md5 creates a perfect uri string but as I said it cannot be decoded.

 

I would appreciate any ideas of suggestions.

 

Thanks a million.

[Fadion]

You could use ord and chr to convert a string into it's ascii value. It still makes no sense to me why you want to use numbers instead of humanly-readable text in URLs anyway.