For anyone who's looking to convert full strings to map and back it's pretty simple but takes some getting used to...the code below saves an hour of scrounging codes for beginners like myself.
function var2map($a) {
$b='';
$c=strlen($a);
for($i=0; $i<$c; ++$i) {
$d=ord(substr($a,$i,1));
if($d<10) {
$e='00'.$d;
} else {
if($d<100) {
$e='0'.$d;
} else {
$e=$d;
}
}
if($b=='') {
$b=$e;
} else {
$b=$b.$e;
}
}
return $b;
}
function map2var($a) {
$b='';
$c=strlen($a) / 3;
for($i=0; $i<$c; ++$i) {
$d=chr(substr($a,$i*3,3));
if($b=='') {
$b=$d;
} else {
$b=$b.$d;
}
}
return $b;
}