fpassthru

Description

Reads to EOF on the given file pointer from the current position and writes the results to the output buffer.

If an error occurs, fpassthru() returns FALSE. Otherwise, fpassthru() returns the number of characters read from handle and passed through to the output.

The file pointer must be valid, and must point to a file successfully opened by fopen(), popen(), or fsockopen(). You may need to call rewind() to reset the file pointer to the beginning of the file if you have already written data to the file. The file is closed when fpassthru() is done reading it (leaving handle useless).

If you just want to dump the contents of a file to the output buffer, without first modifying it or seeking to a particular offset, you may want to use the readfile(), which saves you the fopen() call.

Example 1. Using fpassthru() with binary files <?php // open the file in a binary mode $name = ".\public\dev\img\ok.png"; $fp = fopen($name, 'rb'); // send the right headers header("Content-Type: image/png"); header("Content-Length: " . filesize($name)); // dump the picture and stop the script fpassthru($fp); exit; ?>

See also readfile(), fopen(), popen(), and fsockopen()