Chapter 10. Stream and Network Programming
Terms You’ll Need to Understand
File wrappers
Streams
Sockets
Blocking calls
Techniques You’ll Need to Master
Filesystem functions
Network functions
Socket functions
Stream functions
URL functions
List of supported protocols/wrappers
List of supported transports
php.ini
Settings to Understand
allow_url_fopen
(Filesystem)auto_detect_line_endings
(Filesystem)default_socket_timeout
(Filesystem)from
(Filesystem)user_agent
(Filesystem)
What Are File Wrappers?
File wrappers are pieces of code that PHP uses to read from and write to different types of files. They are part of PHP’s Streams architecture.
File wrappers allow you to use PHP’s built-in filesystem functions on things that aren’t normal files.
Figure 10.1 shows what ...
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