Convert Boolean Text To Boolean
Strings always evaluate to boolean true unless they have a value that's considered "empty" by PHP. FILTER_VALIDATE_BOOLEAN provides a solution though:
$UploadsEnabled = "false";
$UploadsEnabled = filter_var($UploadsEnabled, FILTER_VALIDATE_BOOLEAN);
Convert Bytes To UInt32
$handle = fopen("myfile.bin", "rb");
$Contents = fread($handle, 20);
$FileByteArray = unpack("C*",$Contents); //<<<Warning the outputted array starts from [1] not [0] !!!!!! Bloody PHP...
$ByteCount = 1; //<Yes 1 not 0
//Get uint32_t value from block of 4 bytes
$SerialNumber = $FileByteArray[$ByteCount++] << 24;
$SerialNumber += $FileByteArray[$ByteCount++] << 16;
$SerialNumber += $FileByteArray[$ByteCount++] << 8;
$SerialNumber += $FileByteArray[$ByteCount++];
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