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Question

I have a WebSocket encoder:

print_r(frameEncode("How can I convert a byteArray to String in PHP?"));

    function frameEncode($message) {
        $messageBytes = array();
        $messageLength = strlen($message);

        $messageBytes[0] = 129;

        if ($messageLength < 126) {
            $messageBytes[1] = $messageLength;
        } else if ($messageLength <= 65535) {
            $messageBytes[1] = 126;
            $messageBytes[2] = ($messageLength >> 8) & 255;
            $messageBytes[3] = $messageLength & 255;
        } else {
            $messageBytes[1] = 127;
            $messageBytes[2] = ($messageLength >> 56) & 255;
            $messageBytes[3] = ($messageLength >> 48) & 255;
            $messageBytes[4] = ($messageLength >> 40) & 255;
            $messageBytes[5] = ($messageLength >> 32) & 255;
            $messageBytes[6] = ($messageLength >> 24) & 255;
            $messageBytes[7] = ($messageLength >> 16) & 255;
            $messageBytes[8] = ($messageLength >> 8) & 255;
            $messageBytes[9] = $messageLength & 255;
        }

        return pack("C*", $messageBytes) . $message;
    }

How can I convert the $messageBytes to a string at the end of the function? The array values are simply getting ignored by pack().

Answer 1

You could use call_user_func_array like this:

call_user_func_array('pack', array_merge(array('C*'), $messageBytes)))