php alphabet output
Posted by: pureessence on: July 6, 2005
aw thanks to miki for the tip. i was wondering if there was a smarter way to print out the alphabet in php than just typing them out LOL
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 $x;
}
?>
For lowercase letters, use the numbers 97-122 instead.
9 Responses to "php alphabet output"
July 6, 2005 at 8:46 pm
I have the acsii table for the uppercase letters memorized since my shift and caps lock keys no longer work… 
August 8, 2005 at 11:33 pm
A better solution is:
for ($i=”a”; $i != “aa”; $i++) print “$i\n”;
Note that you can’t say $i
August 19, 2005 at 6:41 am
$range = range(‘a’, ‘z’);
foreach($range as $a){
echo $a;
}
Shouldn’t that work too? Haven’t tried it, though. 
July 26, 2008 at 3:07 pm
thank you! Googled this and found it here!
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Cheers!
K
September 17, 2008 at 9:41 pm
This code works well. Thanks a ton for your code, it helped a bunch.
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July 6, 2005 at 6:08 pm
It’s pretty cool, huh! I wish it could be done in less than 4 lines, though…
for ($i=65; $i