Reading file in as binary in php
I'm trying to use the Zend ZIP class and at some point I have to read my file into a binary data string and then store it into the Zip file. This may be a very simple process, but I don't know how to do it. The documentation at Zend just says
//add the binary data stored in the string 'filedata'
$filedata = "(read your file into $filedata)";
$zipfile -> add_file($filedata, "dir/file.txt");The files are of varying types : text, jpg, tif, xls, etc...
I've looked around various sites including this one, but I may be typing in the wrong search words. In anycase, can anyone give me a clue?
Thanks a mill,
- sharyn
sharyn posted this at 23:51 — 15th November 2004.
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I ended up using file_get_contents() which worked perfectly.
- sharyn
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