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Reputation: 2549

How to write "pseudo" binary into file using php?

I have a string containing something like "01001010" and I want to write it into a file using binary. In other words, what's inside that file is not the chars 0/1, but in binary format. How can I make that?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 213

Answers (1)

John Carter
John Carter

Reputation: 55271

So you mean you want to convert a string of 0s and 1s (eg $bitString = '01010101...';) into binary data (0x55...), and then write that to a file, you need to do this in two steps.

First, convert your string of zeros and ones into binary - see Converting string of 1s and 0s into binary value, then compress afterwards ,PHP

Note that strings in PHP can store binary data.

Then just write the output to a file, eg using file_put_contents().

Upvotes: 2

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