crc32 Calculates the crc32 polynomial of a string &reftitle.description; intcrc32 stringstr Generates the cyclic redundancy checksum polynomial of 32-bit lengths of the str. This is usually used to validate the integrity of data being transmitted. Because PHP's integer type is signed, and many crc32 checksums will result in negative integers, you need to use the "%u" formatter of sprintf or printf to get the string representation of the unsigned crc32 checksum. &reftitle.parameters; str The data. &reftitle.returnvalues; &reftitle.examples; This example shows how to print a converted checksum with the printf function: ]]> &reftitle.seealso; md5 sha1