On 27.10.2016 at 02:40, Jacob Kruger wrote: > Next question then - how did you read the file's contents into a > variable before encoding it? > > Ask since, base64_encode requires a string parameter, and, if I read the > files in using fopen($s_file_name, "rb"), then it returns a resource, fopen() isn't supposed to read a file, but it returns a resource which can be passed to fread(), for instance, to read the contents of the file. Probably the simplest solution: <?php $stream = fopen($file_name, 'rb'); $contents = stream_get_contents($stream); fclose($stream); After that, $contents is supposed to hold the exact contents of the file. > whereas if I use file_get_contents, to read the audio clips contents in > as a string, and then encode them, they still get decoded as a corrupted > version, most likely due to reading in binary data the wrong way? I'm not sure if there are any issues with file_get_contents() wrt. automatic line ending conversion – at least I've never noticed any. But you can easily check that for yourself: read the file with file_get_contents(), and compare the strlen() of the return value with the file size. -- Christoph M. Becker -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
