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From: sean greenslade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:22 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] Bitwise operation giving wrong results
To: Yeti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cool, thanks. It worked. I didn't know you typeset PHP like that.
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 3:42 AM, Yeti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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;
> }
> ?>
>
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