Posted by Richard Lynch on 10/04/30 11:07

Jerry Miller wrote:
> Here's the code (with the domain name removed)
> that doesn't work, "despite" the poor documentation
> of the variable types:
>
> <?
> $dir = "/home/<domain_name>/www/binary/";
> $dh = opendir ($dir);
> do
> {
> $file = readdir ($dh);
> }
> while (!strncmp ($file, ".", 1));
> $filename = sprintf ("%s%s", $dir, $file);
> $fh = fopen ($filename, "r");
> $cont = fread ($fh, 4);
> echo "file:<BR>";
> echo $filename;
> echo "<BR>cont:<BR>";
> printf ("%02x %02x %02x %02x", $cont{0}, $cont{1}, $cont{2},
> $cont{3});
> fclose ($fh);
> closedir ($dh);
> ?>
>
> Here's the output of "od -c glance_date" up to the fourth byte:
>
> 0000000 177 E L F
>
> All four bytes are non-zero!

http://us4.php.net/language.types.type-juggling

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