Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 12/09/07 00:23

zach wrote:
> 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.
>

This problem won't occur if you cross-post instead of multi-posting.

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