---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: sean greenslade <zootboysean@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:22 PM Subject: Re: Bitwise operation giving wrong results To: Yeti <yeti@xxxxxxxxxx> Cool, thanks. It worked. I didn't know you typeset PHP like that. On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 3:42 AM, Yeti <yeti@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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; > } > ?> > -- --Zootboy -- --Zootboy