Monthly Archives: January 2010

Handling binary data in PHP with pack() and unpack()

January 14, 2010
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Nowadays most lowlevel functionality like reading or writing graphics are taken care of 3rd party libraries and that’s ok. It’s way to complicated to do things right and you probably want to focus on outputting or sending a PNG instead of construction one from scratch. While reading and writing these kind of binary data was…

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