PHP + binary files

[E.T. Grey]

I am persisting nested (tree) structures in C to binary file. I want to
be able to read/write this data using PHP - is this possible?. That is
to say, can PHP read/write C structures to file so that the contents may
be transferred to a C client app?

The idea is that I store the binary files at the server end and clients
can request for the file(s). Is this possible ?

PS- the client is (of course) a C++ client, capable of understanding the
returned structure. Another point worth mentioning is that the server
will be on Unix and the client on Windows. Can I force PHP to write the
binary file using Network byte order so that endianess is not an issue?

[Sjoerd]

Re: PHP + binary files

Take a look at pack and unpack.

[Andy Hassall]

Re: PHP + binary files

On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 05:06:48 +0000 (UTC), "E.T. Grey"
<nebula@alpha-centauri.com> wrote:
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>I am persisting nested (tree) structures in C to binary file. I want to
>be able to read/write this data using PHP - is this possible?. That is
>to say, can PHP read/write C structures to file so that the contents may
>be transferred to a C client app?
>
>The idea is that I store the binary files at the server end and clients
>can request for the file(s). Is this possible ?
>
>PS- the client is (of course) a C++ client, capable of understanding the
>returned structure. Another point worth mentioning is that the server
>will be on Unix and the client on Windows. Can I force PHP to write the
>binary file using Network byte order so that endianess is not an issue?[/color]

You probably want: http://uk.php.net/pack

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