php alphabet output
July 6th, 2005
aw thanks to miki for the tip. i was wondering if there was a smarter way to print out the alphebat in php than just typing them out LOL
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Every letter of the English alphabet corresponds to an ASCII code, so rather than manually typing everything out, you can achieve the same result with a simple PHP loop.
The code below will output all uppercase letter from A to Z by running through ASCII codes 65-90 (the values for uppercase letters) and converting each code to its corresponding letter using the in-built PHP function chr().
<?php
for ($i=65; $i< =90; $i++) {
$x = chr($i); print $x;
}
?>
For lowercase letters, use the numbers 97-122 instead.
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July 6th, 2005 at 6:08 pmI have the acsii table for the uppercase letters memorized since my shift and caps lock keys no longer work… :P
A better solution is:
for ($i=”a”; $i != “aa”; $i++) print “$in”;
Note that you can’t say $i
$range = range(’a', ‘z’);
foreach($range as $a){
echo $a;
}
Shouldn’t that work too? Haven’t tried it, though. 
thank you! Googled this and found it here!
Cine on 8/19/2005 at 6:41 am said:
$range = range(’a', ‘z’);
foreach($range as $a){
echo $a;
}Shouldn’t that work too? Haven’t tried it, though.
Cheers!
K
It’s pretty cool, huh! I wish it could be done in less than 4 lines, though…
for ($i=65; $i