Projector UID to ID Converter

Code for generating IDs from UIDs

by mrtsherman

HTML

<div id="uid">uid: <span></span></div>
<div id="hexString">Hexstring: <span></span></div>
<div id="hexString6">Hexstring6: <span></span></div>
<div id="id">id: <span></span></div>

JavaScript

//Convert a Projector UID into an id that can be looked up in the database
var uid = 2305843009214849517;
$('#uid span').text(uid);
//convert to hex
var hexString = uid.toString(16);
$('#hexString span').text(hexString);
//parse off last six characters
var hexString6 = hexString.slice(10);
$('#hexString6 span').text(hexString6);
//convert back to integer
var id = parseInt(hexString6, 16);
$('#id span').text(id);