Usually in PHP one does not take much care about the data types, but in this case you absoloodle have to. If you use bit operators on a character then its ascii number will be taken instead (how should a number based operation work with a string?) also if you pass on $_GET params directly into ay bitwise operation you might get some un-nice behaviour. So check them first. <?php $a = $b = false; if (is_numeric($_GET['b'].$_GET['a'])) { $a = (int)$_GET['a']; $b = (int)$_GET['b']; echo $a & $b; } ?> -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php