What is the function algorithm to translate a string into a unique number?

Question

PHP

Hello.
It is necessary to make a function, the input of which is given a string, and the output is a number that is always the same for this particular string. The number must be between 0 and PHP_INT_MAX.
The results should be evenly distributed. For example, if you supply string representations of numbers from 0 to PHP_INT_MAX as input, so that the results of the function ideally repeat as few times as possible.
For example:

f('1') // 6484845
f('11') // 2156165
f('111') // 59544206

There was an idea to do this:
Take the first 7 bytes of md5 from the input string and translate into 10 SS. But, as far as I know, md5 results do not often have many zeros in a row. As a result of this, the numbers built according to this algorithm will be skewed upwards, and there will be almost no numbers, as it seems to me, closer to 0.

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