Examples

<?php/* Read local file from /home/bar */$localfile = file_get_contents("/home/bar/foo.txt");/* Identical to above, explicitly naming FILE scheme */$localfile = file_get_contents("file:///home/bar/foo.txt");/* Read remote file from www.example.com using HTTP */$httpfile = file_get_contents("http://www.example.com/foo.txt%22);/* Read remote file from www.example.com using HTTPS */$httpsfile = file_get_contents("https://www.example.com/foo.txt%22);/* Read remote file from ftp.example.com using FTP */$ftpfile = file_get_contents("ftp://user:[email protected]/foo.txt%22);/* Read remote file from ftp.example.com using FTPS */$ftpsfile = file_get_contents("ftps://user:[email protected]/foo.txt%22);?>

Example #2 Making a POST request to an https server

<?php/* Send POST request to https://secure.example.com/form_action.php* Include form elements named "foo" and "bar" with dummy values*/$sock = fsockopen("ssl://secure.example.com", 443, $errno, $errstr, 30);if (!$sock) die("$errstr ($errno)\n");$data = "foo=" . urlencode("Value for Foo") . "&bar=" . urlencode("Value for Bar");fwrite($sock, "POST /form_action.php HTTP/1.0\r\n");fwrite($sock, "Host: secure.example.com\r\n");fwrite($sock, "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n");fwrite($sock, "Content-length: " . strlen($data) . "\r\n");fwrite($sock, "Accept: */*\r\n");fwrite($sock, "\r\n");fwrite($sock, $data);$headers = "";while ($str = trim(fgets($sock, 4096)))$headers .= "$str\n";echo "\n";$body = "";while (!feof($sock))$body .= fgets($sock, 4096);fclose($sock);?>

Example #3 Writing data to a compressed file

<?php/* Create a compressed file containing an arbitrarty string* File can be read back using compress.zlib stream or just* decompressed from the command line using 'gzip -d foo-bar.txt.gz'*/$fp = fopen("compress.zlib://foo-bar.txt.gz", "wb");if (!$fp) die("Unable to create file.");fwrite($fp, "This is a test.\n");fclose($fp);?>

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