MongoGridFSFile
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MongoGridFSFile::getBytes

(PECL mongo >=0.9.0)

MongoGridFSFile::getBytesReturns this file's contents as a string of bytes

Description

public string MongoGridFSFile::getBytes ( void )

Warning: this will load the file into memory. If the file is bigger than your memory, this will cause problems!

Parameters

This function has no parameters.

Return Values

Returns a string of the bytes in the file.

Examples

Example #1 MongoGridFSFile::getBytes() example

<?php

$images 
$db->my_db->getGridFS('images');

$image $images->findOne('jwage.png');

header('Content-type: image/png;');
echo 
$image->getBytes();
?>

MongoGridFSFile
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