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Class: CFile
Read and write values to binary files
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<?php

# CFile
# coded by Alessandro Rosa
# e-mail : zandor_zz@yahoo.it
# site : http://alessandrorosa.altervista.org

# Copyright (C) 2011  Alessandro Rosa

# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
# any later version.

# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.

# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
# Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA

# Compiled with PHP 5


define( CFILE_BINARY_WRITEMODE, 1, true ) ;
define( CFILE_TEXT_WRITEMODE, 2, true ) ;

define( CFILE_MOVE_FROM_START, SEEK_SET, true ) ;
define( CFILE_MOVE_FROM_END, SEEK_END, true ) ;
define( CFILE_MOVE_FROM_CURRENT, SEEK_CUR, true ) ;

define( CFILE_MOVE_BEGIN, 0, true ) ;

define( CFILE_LITTLE_ENDIAN, 1, true );
define( CFILE_BIG_ENDIAN, 2, true );

define( CFILE_READ_MODE, "r", true ) ;
define( CFILE_WRITE_MODE, "c", true ) ;
define( CFILE_READWRITE_NO_CREATE_MODE, "c+", true ) ;
define( CFILE_READWRITE_CREATE_MODE, "w+", true ) ;

define( CFILE_BINARY_INT_MODE, 1, true ) ;
define( CFILE_BINARY_FLOAT_MODE, 2, true ) ;
define( CFILE_BINARY_DOUBLE_MODE, 3, true ) ;
define( CFILE_TEXT_MODE, 4, true ) ;

define( CFILE_INT_LITTLE_ENDIAN_PACK_MODE_READ, "h", true ) ;
define( CFILE_INT_LITTLE_ENDIAN_PACK_MODE_WRITE, "i", true ) ;
define( CFILE_INT_BIG_ENDIAN_PACK_MODE_READ, "H", true ) ;
define( CFILE_INT_BIG_ENDIAN_PACK_MODE_WRITE, "I", true ) ;
define( CFILE_INT_PACK_MODE, "i", true ) ;
define( CFILE_DOUBLE_PACK_MODE, "d", true ) ;
define( CFILE_FLOAT_PACK_MODE, "f", true ) ;
define( CFILE_TEXT_PACK_MODE, "a", true ) ;

define( CFILE_FLOAT_ROUND_DIGITS, 4, true );
define( CFILE_DOUBLE_ROUND_DIGITS, 7, true );

// giving an example of a integer variable to compute its memory size
$INT_VAL = (integer)32 ;      $H = pack( CFILE_INT_PACK_MODE."*", $INT_VAL );
define( CFILE_SIZE_OF_INT, strlen($H), true ) ;

// giving an example of a float variable to compute its memory size
$FLOAT_VAL = (float)32 ;      $H = pack( CFILE_FLOAT_PACK_MODE."*", $FLOAT_VAL );
define( CFILE_SIZE_OF_FLOAT, strlen($H), true ) ;

// giving an example of a double variable to compute its memory size
$DOUBLE_VAL = (double)32 ;      $H = pack( CFILE_DOUBLE_PACK_MODE."*", $DOUBLE_VAL );
define( CFILE_SIZE_OF_DOUBLE, strlen($H), true ) ;

class cfile
{
    var $FILE_HANDLE = false ;
    var $FILE_PATH = "" ;
    var $FILE_SIZE = 0 ;
    var $bERROR = false ;
    var $error_no = 0 ;
    var $error_msg = "" ;
    var $byte_order = 0 ;
    
    function cfile( $FP, $BYTE_ORDER = CFILE_BIG_ENDIAN )
    {
        $FP = trim( $FP );
        $this->FILE_PATH = $FP ;
        if ( strlen( $FP ) == 0 )
        {
            $this->bERROR = true ;
            $this->error_no = 1.1 ;
        }
        else
        {
            $this->byte_order = $BYTE_ORDER ;
            
            $REG_EXP = '/^([A-Za-z]:)|[a-z0-9_.\/\\\]*$/i' ;
            $bRET = preg_match( $REG_EXP, $FP ) ;
            
            if ( !$bRET )
            {
                $this->bERROR = true ;
                $this->error_no = 1.3 ;
            }
        }
    }
    
    function open( $OPEN_MODE = CFILE_READ_MODE )
    {
        $this->FILE_SIZE = ( file_exists( $this->FILE_PATH ) ) ? filesize( $this->FILE_PATH ) : 0 ;
        $this->FILE_SIZE = intval( $this->FILE_SIZE );        if ( is_nan( $this->FILE_SIZE ) ) $this->FILE_SIZE = 0 ;
        
        $this->FILE_HANDLE = ( $this->bERROR ) ? false : @fopen( $this->FILE_PATH, $OPEN_MODE );
        
        if ( !( $this->FILE_HANDLE ) )
        {
            $this->bERROR = true ;
            $this->error_no = 1.4 ;
        }
        
        return ( $this->FILE_HANDLE !== false ) ? true : false ;
    }
    
    function move_to_beginning() { return $this->move( 0, 0 ); }
    function move_to_end()       { return $this->move( 0, $this->FILE_SIZE - 1 ); }
    
    function move_backward( $nbytes = 0 )
    {
          $bRET = true ;
          if ( $this->FILE_HANDLE !== false )
          {
              $nbytes = abs( $nbytes );     $nbytes = -$nbytes ;
        
              $SEEK = @fseek( $this->FILE_HANDLE, $nbytes, SEEK_CUR );
              $SEEK = intval( $SEEK );      if ( is_nan( $SEEK ) ) $SEEK = 0 ;
        
              $bRET = ( $SEEK == 0 ) ? true : false ;
              if ( $bRET )
              {
                   $this->bERROR = true ;
                   $this->error_no = 5.2 ;
              }
          }
          else $bRET = false ;
                
          return $bRET ;
    }

    function move_forward( $nbytes = 0 )
    {
          $bRET = true ;
          if ( $this->FILE_HANDLE !== false )
          {
              $nbytes = abs( $nbytes );
        
              $SEEK = @fseek( $this->FILE_HANDLE, $nbytes, SEEK_CUR );
              $SEEK = intval( $SEEK );      if ( is_nan( $SEEK ) ) $SEEK = 0 ;
        
              $bRET = ( $SEEK == 0 ) ? true : false ;
              if ( $bRET )
              {
                   $this->bERROR = true ;
                   $this->error_no = 5.2 ;
              }
          }
          else $bRET = false ;
                
          return $bRET ;
    }
    
    function move( $start, $nbytes = 0 ) // minus and plus for backward and forward direction respectively
    {
        $FS = $this->FILE_SIZE ;
        
        $nbytes = intval( $nbytes );      if ( is_nan( $nbytes ) ) $nbytes = 0 ;
        $newpos = $start + $nbytes ;
        
        if ( $newpos > $FS || $newpos < 0 )
        {
             $this->bERROR = true ;
             $this->error_no = 5.3 ;
             
             return false ;
        }
        else
        {
            if ( $this->FILE_HANDLE !== false )
            {
                // move to start point first
                if ( $start >= 0 ) @fseek( $this->FILE_HANDLE, $start, SEEK_SET );
            
                $SEEK = @fseek( $this->FILE_HANDLE, $nbytes, SEEK_CUR );
                $SEEK = intval( $SEEK );      if ( is_nan( $SEEK ) ) $SEEK = 0 ;
    
                $bRET = ( $SEEK == 0 ) ? true : false ;
                if ( $bRET )
                {
                    $this->bERROR = true ;
                    $this->error_no = 5.2 ;
                }
                
                return $bRET ;
            }
            else
            {
                $this->bERROR = true ;
                $this->error_no = 5.1 ;
                return false ;
            }
        }
    }
    
    public function read_array( &$item, $BYTE_ORDER = CFILE_BIG_ENDIAN, $bREVERSE_BYTE_ORDER = true )
    {
          if ( is_array( $item ) )
          {
                $bRET = true ;
                $nitems = count( $item );
                $readmode = 0 ;
                
                foreach( $item AS $key => $chunk )
                {
                    if ( is_array( $chunk ) )
                    {
                        $cast = key( $chunk );
                        $cast_array = ( strpos( $cast, "@", 0 ) !== false ) ? explode( "@", $cast ) : array( $cast, 0 ) ;
                        $cast_type = strtolower( $cast_array[0] ) ;
                        $cast_bytes = intval( $cast_array[1] ) ;
                        
                        $writemode = 0 ;
    
                        switch( $cast_type )
                        {
                              case "string" :
                                $readmode = CFILE_TEXT_MODE ;
                                if ( is_nan( $cast_bytes ) || $cast_bytes == 0 ) $cast_bytes = 0 ;
                              break ;
                              case "float" :
                                $readmode = CFILE_BINARY_FLOAT_MODE ;
                                if ( is_nan( $cast_bytes ) || $cast_bytes == 0 ) $cast_bytes = CFILE_SIZE_OF_FLOAT ;
                              break ;
                              case "double" :
                                $readmode = CFILE_BINARY_DOUBLE_MODE ;
                                if ( is_nan( $cast_bytes ) || $cast_bytes == 0 ) $cast_bytes = CFILE_SIZE_OF_DOUBLE ;
                              break ;
                              case "int" :
                              case "integer" :
                                $readmode = CFILE_BINARY_INT_MODE ;
                                if ( is_nan( $cast_bytes ) || $cast_bytes == 0 ) $cast_bytes = CFILE_SIZE_OF_INT ;
                              break ;
                              default :
                                $readmode = CFILE_BINARY_INT_MODE ;
                                if ( is_nan( $cast_bytes ) || $cast_bytes == 0 ) $cast_bytes = CFILE_SIZE_OF_INT ;
                              break ;
                        }
                        
                        if ( $cast_bytes == 0 )
                        {
                             $this->bERROR = true ;
                             $this->error_no = 2.5 ;
                             return false ;
                        }
                        else
                        {
                             $val = $this->read( $cast_bytes, $readmode, $BYTE_ORDER, $bREVERSE_BYTE_ORDER ) ;
                             if ( $val !== false ) $item["$key"] = array( $cast => $val ) ;
                        }
                    }
                }
                
                return true ;
          }
          else
          {
                $this->bERROR = true ;
                $this->error_no = 2.4 ;
                return false ;
          }
    }
    
    function read( $nbytes, $mode = CFILE_TEXT_MODE, $BYTE_ORDER = CFILE_BIG_ENDIAN, $bREVERSE_BYTE_ORDER = true )
    {
        $original_bytes = $nbytes ;
        $mode = intval( $mode );          if ( is_nan( $mode ) ) $mode = CFILE_BINARY_INT_MODE ;
        $nbytes = intval( $nbytes );      if ( is_nan( $nbytes ) ) $nbytes = 0 ;
        
        $FS = $this->FILE_SIZE ;

        $start = @ftell( $this->FILE_HANDLE );
        $newpos = $start + $nbytes ;
        
        if ( $mode == CFILE_TEXT_MODE ) $bREVERSE_BYTE_ORDER = false ;

        if ( $newpos > $FS || $newpos < 0 )
        {
             $this->bERROR = true ;
             $this->error_no = 2.3 ;
             return false ;
        }
        else
        {
            if ( $this->FILE_HANDLE !== false && $nbytes > 0 )
            {
                $F = "" ;
                $READ = @fread( $this->FILE_HANDLE, $nbytes ) ;

                if ( $READ === false )
                {
                    $this->bERROR = true ;
                    $this->error_no = 2.2 ;
                    return false ;
                }
                else
                {
                      $INPUT_LEN = 0 ;
                      if ( $mode != CFILE_TEXT_MODE )
                      {
                          if      ( $mode == CFILE_BINARY_INT_MODE )    { $F = CFILE_INT_PACK_MODE ;    $F = "h*" ; $INPUT_LEN = CFILE_SIZE_OF_INT ; }
                          else if ( $mode == CFILE_BINARY_FLOAT_MODE )  { $F = CFILE_FLOAT_PACK_MODE ;  $F = "$F*" ; $INPUT_LEN = CFILE_SIZE_OF_FLOAT ; }
                          else if ( $mode == CFILE_BINARY_DOUBLE_MODE ) { $F = CFILE_DOUBLE_PACK_MODE ; $F = "$F*" ; $INPUT_LEN = CFILE_SIZE_OF_DOUBLE ; }
                      }
                      else if ( $mode == CFILE_TEXT_MODE ) { $F = CFILE_TEXT_PACK_MODE ; $F = "$F*" ; $INPUT_LEN = strlen( $READ ) ; }

                      $RET = unpack( "$F", $READ ) ;
                      if ( $mode == CFILE_TEXT_MODE ) $bRET = $RET[1] ;
                      else
                      {
                          if ( $mode == CFILE_BINARY_INT_MODE )
                          {
                               if ( $bREVERSE_BYTE_ORDER ) $RET[1] = cfile::reverse_byte_order( $RET[1] ) ;
                               $RET[1] = ltrim( $RET[1], 0 );
                               $bRET = hexdec( $RET[1] ) ;
                          }
                          else $bRET = $RET[1] ;
                      }

                      return $bRET ;
                }
            }
            else
            {
                $this->bERROR = true ;
                $this->error_no = 2.1 ;
                return false ;
            }
        }
    }

    private function write_binary( $FH, $chunk, $nbytes, $writemode )
    {
          if ( is_array( $chunk ) )
          {
                $bRET = true ;
                
                foreach( $chunk AS $key => $val )
                {
                    $b = strlen( $val ) ;
                    $bRET &= $this->write_binary( $FH, $val, $b ) ;
                }
                
                return $bRET ;
          }
          else
          {
                $IN = null ;        $F = "" ;
                       
                if ( is_numeric( $chunk ) )
                {
                     if ( $writemode == CFILE_BINARY_INT_MODE )
                     {
                          switch( $this->byte_order )
                          {
                               case CFILE_LITTLE_ENDIAN :
                                   $F = CFILE_INT_LITTLE_ENDIAN_PACK_MODE_WRITE ;
                               break ;
                               case CFILE_BIG_ENDIAN :
                                   $F = CFILE_INT_BIG_ENDIAN_PACK_MODE_WRITE ;
                               break ;
                               default :
                                   $this->byte_order = CFILE_BIG_ENDIAN ;
                                   $F = CFILE_INT_BIG_ENDIAN_PACK_MODE_WRITE ;
                               break ;
                          }
                     }
                     else if ( $writemode == CFILE_BINARY_FLOAT_MODE )
                     {
                          $chunk = round( $chunk, CFILE_FLOAT_ROUND_DIGITS );
                          $F = CFILE_FLOAT_PACK_MODE ;
                     }
                     else if ( $writemode == CFILE_BINARY_DOUBLE_MODE )
                     {
                          $chunk = round( $chunk, CFILE_DOUBLE_ROUND_DIGITS );
                          $F = CFILE_DOUBLE_PACK_MODE ;
                     }
                }
                else $F = CFILE_TEXT_PACK_MODE ;

                $IN = pack( "$F*", $chunk ) ;         if ( $nbytes == 0 ) $nbytes = strlen( $IN );
                $O = @fwrite( $FH, $IN, $nbytes );

                if ( $O === false )
                {
                     $this->bERROR = true ;
                     $this->error_no = 3.3 ;
                }
                else $this->bERROR = false ;

                return $this->bERROR ;
          }
    }
    
    private function write_array( $item )
    {
          if ( is_array( $item ) )
          {
                $bRET = true ;
                
                foreach( $item AS $key => $chunk )
                {
                    $cast = key( $chunk );
                    $val = current( $chunk );
                
                    $cast_array = ( strpos( $cast, "@", 0 ) !== false ) ? explode( "@", $cast ) : array( $cast, 0 ) ;
                    $cast_type = strtolower( $cast_array[0] ) ;
                    $cast_bytes = intval( $cast_array[1] ) ;
                    
                    $writemode = 0 ;

                    switch( $cast_type )
                    {
                          case "string" :
                            $val = "$val" ;
                            $writemode = CFILE_TEXT_MODE ;
                            if ( is_nan( $cast_bytes ) || $cast_bytes == 0 ) $cast_bytes = strlen( $val );
                          break ;
                          case "float" :
                            $writemode = CFILE_BINARY_FLOAT_MODE ;
                            if ( is_nan( $cast_bytes ) || $cast_bytes == 0 ) $cast_bytes = CFILE_SIZE_OF_FLOAT ;
                          break ;
                          case "double" :
                            $writemode = CFILE_BINARY_DOUBLE_MODE ;
                            if ( is_nan( $cast_bytes ) || $cast_bytes == 0 ) $cast_bytes = CFILE_SIZE_OF_DOUBLE ;
                          break ;
                          case "int" :
                          case "integer" :
                            $writemode = CFILE_BINARY_INT_MODE ;
                            if ( is_nan( $cast_bytes ) || $cast_bytes == 0 ) $cast_bytes = CFILE_SIZE_OF_INT ;
                          break ;
                          default :
                            $writemode = CFILE_BINARY_INT_MODE ;
                            if ( is_nan( $cast_bytes ) || $cast_bytes == 0 ) $cast_bytes = CFILE_SIZE_OF_INT ;
                          break ;
                    }
                    
                    $this->write( $val, $cast_bytes, $writemode ) ;
                }
          }
          else
          {
                $this->bERROR = true ;
                $this->error_no = 3.4 ;
                return false ;
          }
    }
    
    function write( $chunk, $nbytes = 0, $writemode = CFILE_BINARY_INT_MODE )
    {
        if ( is_array( $chunk ) ) $this->write_array( $chunk ) ;
        else
        {
            if ( $this->FILE_HANDLE !== false )
            {
                  if ( !is_numeric( $chunk ) )    $writemode = CFILE_TEXT_MODE ;
                  else
                  {
                        if ( is_int( $chunk ) )         $writemode = CFILE_BINARY_INT_MODE ;
                        else if ( is_double( $chunk ) ) $writemode = CFILE_BINARY_DOUBLE_MODE ;
                        else if ( is_float( $chunk ) )  $writemode = CFILE_BINARY_FLOAT_MODE ;
                  }
    
                  if ( $writemode == CFILE_BINARY_INT_MODE )
                  {
                      if ( $nbytes == 0 ) $nbytes = CFILE_SIZE_OF_INT ;
                      return $this->write_binary( $this->FILE_HANDLE, $chunk, $nbytes, CFILE_BINARY_INT_MODE ) ;
                  }
                  else if ( $writemode == CFILE_BINARY_FLOAT_MODE )
                  {
                      if ( $nbytes == 0 ) $nbytes = CFILE_SIZE_OF_FLOAT ;
                      return $this->write_binary( $this->FILE_HANDLE, $chunk, $nbytes, CFILE_BINARY_FLOAT_MODE ) ;
                  }
                  else if ( $writemode == CFILE_BINARY_DOUBLE_MODE )
                  {
                      if ( $nbytes == 0 ) $nbytes = CFILE_SIZE_OF_DOUBLE ;
                      return $this->write_binary( $this->FILE_HANDLE, $chunk, $nbytes, CFILE_BINARY_DOUBLE_MODE ) ;
                  }
                  else if ( $writemode == CFILE_TEXT_MODE )
                  {
                      if ( $nbytes == 0 ) $nbytes = ( is_array( $chunk ) ) ? count( $chunk ) : strlen( $chunk ) ;
                      return $this->write_binary( $this->FILE_HANDLE, $chunk, $nbytes, CFILE_TEXT_MODE ) ;
                  }
                  else
                  {
                      $this->bERROR = true ;
                      $this->error_no = 3.2 ;
                      return false ;
                  }
            }
            else
            {
                $this->bERROR = true ;
                $this->error_no = 3.1 ;
                return false ;
            }
        }
    }
    
    function close()
    {
        if ( $this->FILE_HANDLE !== false )
        {
            $bRET = @fclose( $this->FILE_HANDLE ) ;
            if ( $bRET === false )
            {
                $this->bERROR = true ;
                $this->error_no = 4.1 ;
            }
            else $this->FILE_HANDLE = false ;
        }
        else
        {
            $this->bERROR = true ;
            $this->error_no = 4.2 ;
            $bRET = false ;
        }

        return $bRET ; 
    }
    
    function reset()
    {
        if ( $this->FILE_HANDLE !== false )
        {
            $bCLOSE = $this->close();
            if ( $bCLOSE )
            {
                $this->FILE_PATH = "" ;
                $this->FILE_HANDLE = false ;
                $this->FILE_SIZE = 0 ;
                $this->bERROR = false ;
                $this->error_no = 0 ;
                $this->error_msg = "" ;
                $this->byte_order = 0 ;
            }
            
            return $bCLOSE ;
        }
    }
    ////////////////// ADDITIONAL MEMBER FUNCTIONS /////////////////////////////
    public function get_pointer_position()
    {
        return ( $this->FILE_HANDLE !== false ) ? @ftell( $this->FILE_HANDLE ) : false ;
    }
    
    public function feof() { return ( $this->FILE_HANDLE !== false ) ? feof( $this->FILE_HANDLE ) : -1 ; }
    ////////////////// ERROR HANDLING //////////////////////////////////////////
    public function is_error() { return $this->bERROR ; }
    
    public function get_error_string()
    {
          $error_no = intval( $this->error_no );      if ( is_nan( $error_no ) ) $error_no = -1 ;
          switch( $error_no )
          {
                case  -1:  $this->error_msg = "Error $error_no : unknown" ; break ;
                case   0:  $this->error_msg = "No error" ; break ;
                case 0.1:  $this->error_msg = "Error $error_no : reset" ; break ;
                case 1.1 : $this->error_msg = "Error $error_no : no filepath" ; break ;
                case 1.2 : $this->error_msg = "Error $error_no : filepath does not exists" ; break ;
                case 1.3 : $this->error_msg = "Error $error_no : filepath incorrect syntax" ; break ;
                case 1.4 : $this->error_msg = "Error $error_no : can't open file" ; break ;
                case 2.1 : $this->error_msg = "Error $error_no : no read: file access failure" ; break ;
                case 2.2 : $this->error_msg = "Error $error_no : no read: operational error" ; break ;
                case 2.3 : $this->error_msg = "Error $error_no : no read: pointer position exceeding file length" ; break ;
                case 2.4 : $this->error_msg = "Error $error_no : no read: data input is not of array type" ; break ;
                case 2.5 : $this->error_msg = "Error $error_no : no read: some array field was not casted properly" ; break ;
                case 3.1 : $this->error_msg = "Error $error_no : no write: file access failure" ; break ;
                case 3.2 : $this->error_msg = "Error $error_no : no write: select mode" ; break ;
                case 3.3 : $this->error_msg = "Error $error_no : no write: operational error" ; break ;
                case 3.4 : $this->error_msg = "Error $error_no : no write: data container is not of array type" ; break ;
                case 4.1 : $this->error_msg = "Error $error_no : no close: file access failure" ; break ;
                case 4.2 : $this->error_msg = "Error $error_no : no close: operational error" ; break ;
                case 5.1 : $this->error_msg = "Error $error_no : no move: file access failure" ; break ;
                case 5.2 : $this->error_msg = "Error $error_no : no move: unknown" ; break ;
                case 5.3 : $this->error_msg = "Error $error_no : no move: pointer position exceeding file length" ; break ;
                default:   $this->error_msg = "Error $error_no : unknown" ; break ;
          }
          
          return $this->error_msg ;
    }
    
    ////////////////// STATIC FUNCTIONS ////////////////////////////////////////
    public static function reverse_byte_order( $input,
                                               $chunk_length = 1,
                                               $bHEXinput = true,
                                               $bretrieveHEXstring = false,
                                               $pad_to = 2 )
    {
        if ( $bHEXinput || is_string( $input ) )
        {
             $v = $input ;
             if ( strlen( $v ) % 2 == 1 ) $v = "0$v" ;
             
             // reverse byte read order
             $A = str_split( $v, $chunk_length );
             $A = array_reverse( $A );
             $v = implode( "", $A ) ;
             
             return $v ;
        }
        else
        {
            $F = "" ;
            if ( is_numeric( $input ) )
            {
                if ( is_double( $input ) ) $F = "d*" ;
                else if ( is_int( $input ) ) $F = "i*" ;
                else $F = "a*" ; // it might be a string containing numbers only
            }
            else $F = "a*" ;
    
            $packedINPUT = pack( "$F", $input );
            $RET = unpack( "H*", $packedINPUT );
            $v = $RET[1] ;

            // no reversion for trailing zeros on the right
            $temp_v_01 = rtrim( $v, "0" );
            $n_trimmed_zeros = strlen( $v ) - strlen( $temp_v_01 ) ;
            $temp_v_02 = strrev( $temp_v_01 ).( str_repeat( "0", $n_trimmed_zeros ) ) ;
            
            $v = $temp_v_02 ;
    
            if ( $bretrieveHEXstring && $pad_to > 0 ) return substr( $v, -$pad_to ) ;
            else
            {
                if ( is_int( $input ) ) $F = "i*" ;
                else if ( is_double( $input ) ) $F = "d*" ;
                else $F = "a*" ;
                
                $I = pack( "H*", $v ) ;
                $v = $I ;
                $I = unpack( "$F", $v ) ;
                return $I[1] ;
            }
        }
    }
    
    public static function swap_nibble( $byte )
    {
        $low_nibble = 0x0F & $byte ;
        $high_nibble = ( 0xF0 & $byte ) / 0x0F ;
        
        return ( ( $low_nibble ) * 0x0F ) | $high_nibble ;
    }

    public static function get_nbytes( $input, &$nbits = 0 )
    {
            $nbits = ( $input > 0 ) ? log10( $input ) / log10( 2 ) : 0 ;
            $nbytes = $nbits / 8 ;
            if ( fmod( $nbits, 8 ) == 0 ) $nbytes++ ;
            
            return ceil( $nbytes );
    }

    public static function float_to_hex( $f ) { $f = (float)$f ;       $v = pack( "f*", $f );    $v = unpack( "h*", $v ); return $v[1] ; }
    public static function hex_to_float( $h ) { $v = pack( "h*", $h ); $f = unpack( "f*", $v );  return $f[1] ; }

    public static function double_to_hex( $d ) { $d = (double)$d ;       $v = pack( "d*", $d );    $v = unpack( "h*", $v ); return $v[1] ; }
    public static function hex_to_double( $h ) { $v = pack( "h*", $h );  $d = unpack( "d*", $v );  return $d[1] ; }
}
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