PHP mb_ord() Function

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The m_ord() is an inbuilt function in PHP that returns the Unicode code point for the specific character.

Syntax:

mb_ord(string $string, ?string $encoding = null): int|false

Parameters: This function has two parameters:

string: This is the string input. It must be a valid string.
encoding: The encoding parameter specifies the character encoding. In case if omitted or null, then the internal character encoding value will be utilized.

Return value: This function returns the first character Unicode if the function is successfully executed otherwise it will return “false”.

Example 1: The following code demonstrates the mb_ord() function.

PHP

<?php     
$string = '©'; 
$code_point = mb_ord($string, 'ISO-8859-1'); 
echo $code_point;     
?>

Output:

Example 2: The following code demonstrates the mb_ord() function.

PHP

<?php     
$word = 'Hello'; 
$code_point = mb_ord($word, 'UTF-8'); 
      
if ($code_point === 72) { 
    echo "The first character in the word is 'H'."; 
} 
else { 
    echo "The first character in the word is not 'H'."; 
}     
  
?>