Posted by zach on 12/09/07 00:20

Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> zach wrote:
>> Can someone help me out, I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong to
>> write to a file in binary mode.
>>
>> What's wrong with my code?
>>
>> <?php
>>
>> $fileName = "something.dat";
>> $string = "This is a string of text";
>>
>> $ptr = fopen($fileName, 'wb');
>>
>> fwrite($ptr, $string);
>> fclose($ptr);
>>
>> ?>
>>
>
> What kind of error messages do you get? Or what result indicates you
> aren't writing the data correctly?
>
I got a reply from Rik in another php forum already. I wasn't getting an
error but I was mistaken on how a binary file should look. I expected it
to look differently than just plain old ascii text and it didn't. Thanks
for replying.

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