fopen

(PHP 3, PHP 4 )

fopen -- Opens file or URL

Description

int fopen (string filename, string mode [, int use_include_path])

If filename begins with "http://" (not case sensitive), an HTTP 1.0 connection is opened to the specified server and a file pointer is returned to the beginning of the text of the response. A 'Host:' header is sent with the request in order to handle name-based virtual hosts.

Does not handle HTTP redirects, so you must include trailing slashes on directories.

If filename begins with "ftp://" (not case sensitive), an ftp connection to the specified server is opened and a pointer to the requested file is returned. If the server does not support passive mode ftp, this will fail. You can open files for either reading or writing via ftp (but not both simultaneously).

If filename is one of "php://stdin", "php://stdout", or "php://stderr", the corresponding stdio stream will be opened. (This was introduced in PHP 3.0.13; in earlier versions, a filename such as "/dev/stdin" or "/dev/fd/0" must be used to access the stdio streams.)

If filename begins with anything else, the file will be opened from the filesystem, and a file pointer to the file opened is returned.

If the open fails, the function returns false.

mode may be any of the following: