From: https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.imagecolorallocatealpha.php

If you need to calculate the integer representation of a color with an alpha channel, without initialising an image and using the imagecolorallocatealpha function. Then this function might be of some help:

<?php
function alphaColor($hexColor,$alpha)
{
        return bindec(decbin($alpha).decbin(hexdec($hexColor));
}

echo alphaColor("FFFFFF",127);
?>