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Asked: 2026-05-15T03:06:20+00:00

I find myself in need of performing bit-level conversion on variables in PHP. In

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I find myself in need of performing bit-level conversion on variables in PHP. In more detail, I have a bit stream that is read as an integer by hardware, and I need to do some operations on the bits to make it into what its actually supposed to be (a float). I have to do this a few times for different formats, and the functionality I need is

  • Being able to select and move individual bits in a variable
  • Being able to cast statically one type of variable to the other (ie. int to float)

I know php natively supports bitwise AND, OR, etc, and shift operations, but I was wondering if:

  • there may already be a library in php that does this sort of thing
  • I would be better off with delegating the calculations to some other language

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  1. Editorial Team

    Is it pack and unpack that you want?

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