Getting different results in PHP and JS when bit shifting - php

Question

I'm getting some odd results where 2 identical functions (one in PHP and one in javascript) are returning different results.
The input for both of these lines of code is identical:
a = 4653896912;
b = 13;
I have double checked the variable types and both variables are numbers in JS and integers in PHP.
The line of code for PHP is this:
$a = $a >> $b;
For Javascript it's this:
a = a >> b;
You'd expect a to have the same value after both, but I'm getting the following:
PHP: $a = 568102
JS: a = 43814
Which has completely baffled me at this point.
Turns out this is definitely an issue of PHP using 64 bit integers and JS only using 32 bit. The problem I face now is that I need to get PHP to use 32-bit integers for these calculations. I found a function someone else wrote that looks like it should work, but it doesn't seem to be changing the output at all for me.
private static function toInt32(&$x) {
$z = hexdec(80000000);
$y = (int) $x;
if($y ==- $z && $x <- $z){
$y = (int) ((-1) * $x);
$y = (-1) * $y;
}
$x = $y;
}

Answer 1

The below code demonstrates masking the upper 32 bits of the number to retrieve only the lower 32 bits to use in your calculations. 4294967295 is 2^32 - 1. I think that if you mask all values that could be greater than 32 bits in this manner, then you can get the same results from your php and javascript.
<?php
$php_a = 4653896912;
$php_b = 13;
//convert $php_a into a 32 bit val
$php_a = $php_a & 4294967295;
$a = $php_a >> $php_b;
echo "PHP: \$a = $a <br />";
?>
<script type="text/javascript">
var a = 4653896912;
var b = 13;
var a = a >> b;
alert('Javascript A value is ' + a);
</script>

Answer 2

4653896912 is more than 32 bits.. unpredictable results are likely. I get $a = 43814 for PHP, but that is actually 358929617 >> 13, so in all likelihood PHP is doing 64 bit operations but JavaScript is only 32 bit.

Answer 3

I believe it's because you're a is above the limit of a 32-bit signed integer for [PHP][1].
The highest value possible is about 2 million, and a is over 4 billion.
When you're rolling over because of space limitations, results can be unpredictable (or at least, very difficult to figure out).
If your server is on a 64-bit version of PHP then it'll max out much higher than than, but javascript is limited by what the end-user is running.
You can read up on PHP on their integers page.