| Re: php://memory and php://temp [message #170152 is a reply to message #170151] |
Wed, 13 October 2010 03:06  |
Jerry Stuckle
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On 10/12/2010 9:44 PM, BKDotCom wrote:
> http://php.net/manual/en/wrappers.php.php
> per the documentation: php://memory and php://temp are both listed
> under "Allows Appending"
>
> what am I missing / what's the point?
>
> They only seem to work with read/write modes such as
> fopen('php://memory','rw');
>
> closing the handle, or trying to open another handle without closing
> the first essentially erase the contents... so what's the point of
> fopen('php://memory','a') ?
> you'll
> a) be appending nothing,
> b) no way to read what you just wrote?
>
> sure would be nice if you could
>
> $fh = fopen('php://memory', 'w');
> fwrite($fh, 'test string');
> fclose($fh);
>
> $fh = fopen('php://memory', 'r');
> $result = fgets($fh,2048);
> fclose($fh);
> echo $result;
These are temporary "files" - as soon as they are closed, they go away,
as you note. So it really doesn't make any sense to open them other
than for read/write.
Other options are there - but those are just standard options for any
file. It doesn't mean you need to use them.
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