At 10:16 AM +0000 7/11/06, Antonio Bassinger wrote:
>Dear ALL,
>
>I've an binary file with special (non-printable) characters including '<'
>'/' & '>'. I retrieve this file from the database, into a variable
>$binaryFILE.
>
>I then copy the content to a temporary file, opened with handle $handle :
>
>
>if (!fwrite($handle, $binaryFILE)) {
> echo "Failed to copy $bname...";
> }
> else
> {
> echo "Success";
> }
>
>The file copies to a file on the filesystem correctly. However, if I try to
>print out the characters of this file on a browser, using
>
>echo $binaryFILE;
>
>the output isn't the same. The characters '<' and '>' and anything included
>within is not printed.
>
>I tried printing line by line, using:
>
>$binaryMS = explode("",$binaryMMS);
>foreach ($binaryFILE as $ii)
>{
> echo $ii;
>}
>
>However, no change in result.
>
>Do I print character by character? I shall appreciate any pointers on this
>problem.
>
>Many Thanks
>Antonio
Antonio:
The reason why you are not seeing the characters is that they are being grabbed-up by the browser as html code. In other words, you are injecting html into your web page.
Take a look at this:
http://www.weberdev.com/htmlentities
Now, pass your content through this function and then display.
tedd
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