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Posted by C. (http://symcbean.blogspot.com/) on 10/03/13 12:00
On 16 Jan, 02:41, The Natural Philosopher <a...@b.c> wrote:
> Paul Lautman wrote:
> > Bint wrote:
> >> This may be an ignorant question, but does PHP always return text
> >> data? I would like to return binary data from a script that I call,
> >> in much the same way that I get binary data simply by downloading a
> >> file. I would like to call a php file and let it determine what
> >> binary data is returned.
> >> Right now, if I try to return a binary string, it seems like the
> >> string is being converted into coded characters , like "%5F" and such
>
> >> Thanks
> >> B
>
> > All data is "binary" data. The browser however interprets the data in
> > different ways depending on the headers that are sent with it. So if the
> > headers say it is an image, the browser will try to display it as an image.
>
> And if it is text, but with odd characters in it, php MAY decide to turn
> that into HTML correct characters, depending on how switches are set I
> think.
? new one on me...try this:
<?php
header('Content-Type: image/gif');
$img=file_get_contents('/some/path/some.gif');
print $img;
?>
C.
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