streamWrapper (class)

The streamWrapper class

Introduction

(PHP 4 >= 4.3.2, PHP 5, PHP 7)

Allows you to implement your own protocol handlers and streams for use with all the other filesystem functions (such as fopen(), fread() etc.).

Note:

This is NOT a real class, only a prototype of how a class defining its own protocol should be.

Note:

Implementing the methods in other ways than described here can lead to undefined behaviour.

An instance of this class is initialized as soon as a stream fun