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Asked: 2026-05-30T17:17:06+00:00

I’m trying to create a report from a proprietary ERP database. I’ve set up

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I’m trying to create a report from a proprietary ERP database. I’ve set up an ODBC connection and am using PHP to pull data from the database.

If I use Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio I can see that a row has a TimeStamp field (string type) with a value of 0x00000000093E7FCA, which apparently corresponds to 2011-02-04. (All fields in this table are string type. No idea why. Seems lazy.)

If I do a var_dump of the returned ODBC object I get:

public 'TimeStamp' => string '����  >Â' (length=8)

How do I convert this string value to its hexadecimal equivalent (in this case 0x00000000093E7FCA) using PHP?

I have tried:

$row->TimeStamp + 0; // '0' ...nope.
(binary)$row->TimeStamp; // '����   >Â' ...close!
(int)((binary)$row->TimeStamp); // '0' ...doh!
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  1. Editorial Team

    I would try bin2hex($row->TimeStamp)

    Docs: https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.bin2hex.php

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