On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 06:22, Jochem Maas wrote:
>
> My brain needs a crutch when trying doing this kind of thing
> (normally I only write hex number literally when dealing with bitwise stuff -
> the conversion stuff still makes my head spin) - this is what this table is 
> for:
> 
> 128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1
> 1   0  1  1  0 1 0 1
> 0   1  0  1  1 1 0 0
> 0   0  0  0  1 1 1 1
> 
> and then I did this - hopefully it shows what you can/have to do:
> 
> <?php
> 
> // set some values
> $oldval = 128 + 32 + 16 + 4 + 1; // 10110101
> $update = 64 + 16 + 8 + 4;     // 01011100
> $mask   = 8 + 4 + 2 + 1;       // 00001111

You could just do the following:

$oldval = bindec( '10110101' );
$update = bindec( '01011100' );
$mask   = bindec( '00001111' );

Cheers,
Rob.
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