Converting HTML colors to RGB

[SharkBait]

Ok,

  I am trying to figure this out, if I enter the HEX color of 336699 that would break down to:

Red: 51
Green: 102
Blue: 153

Correct?

I would need to split the hex value into 3 values and then convert those to their decimal values right?

Would I go about splitting them up every 2 characters, and then convert hex -> dec on those 3 seperate values?

Or is there a better way to do this?

Thanks.

[Barand]

[code]
<?php
$color = 0x336699;

$r = ($color >> 16) & 0xFF;
$g = ($color >> 8) & 0xFF;
$b = $color & 0xFF;

?>
[/code]

[SharkBait]

Can ya explain what the >> does with the hex values?

[Barand]

see

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,113143.msg459615.html#msg459615