====PHP Driver Files:encode.php====

This file provides takes all of the choices that the user made in [[link_php|link.php]] and puts them into a single text string.

This is then used as the //address// for the point and is available via //self.core.points// in the calls to **Connect**, **Optimise** and **Poll**.

Below is an example from the [[ardiadminguide:ardi-text|text driver]] - in this case, there is only a single component of a point address.

<code php>
<?php
	$internal = $_REQUEST['name'];
?>
</code>

This takes all of the various values we set and puts them into a string, ready for use in the driver.

The function to translate this machine-readable address //back// into a human-readable one is contained in [[decode_php|decode.php]].