Posted by zach on 12/09/07 01:28

Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> 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.
>
Sorry but I don't know what cross posting is. I'll look it up though.

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