play a wav file with it's content in a variable

[Michal Wieteska]

I hope I did not put it in the wrong section ;-)
I have a project where I need to read file content into a variable, for security reasons saving the file is not to be available as a standard option/action. What I have is whatever is inside the file in a variable now i need to play it as a wav file.

<?php 
$filecontent=shell_exec("cat test.wav"); 
?>

now I need to put whatever is in the $filecontent variable to be played on my website. I'm a very newbie to this so any help/hints are very welcome.
Thanks :)

[Markus]

Why not just use file_get_conten ts()?

[Thew]

why dont use <embed src="file.wav"/> ?

[Michal Wieteska]

right. I skipped some details.
I have a gpg encrypted file in a remote location, for security reasons I am not allowed to save the file in a decrypted form but i still need to play it. what I do now is I get the file for gpg to decrypt and then put it into a variable like this

$filecontent=shell_exec("gpg --options-that-make-it-work -decrypt file-adress-and-name.wav.gpg");

wich brings me the file content (just as cat would) into my preciouss variable.