Supported Protocols and Wrappers
PHP comes with many built-in wrappers for various URL-style protocols for use with the filesystem functions such as fopen(), copy(), file_exists() and filesize(). In addition to these wrappers, it is possible to register custom wrappers using the stream_wrapper_register() function.
Note: The URL syntax used to describe a wrapper only supports the scheme://... syntax. The scheme:/ and scheme: syntaxes are not supported.
Table of Contents
- Filesystem — Accessing local filesystem
- HTTP and HTTPS — Accessing HTTP(s) URLs
- FTP and FTPS — Accessing FTP(s) URLs
- PHP input/output — Accessing various I/O streams
- zlib, bzip2 and zip — Compression Streams
- data:// — Data (RFC 2397)
- Glob — Find pathnames matching pattern
- phar:// — PHP Archive
- ssh2:// — Secure Shell 2
- rar:// — RAR
- ogg:// — Audio streams
- expect:// — Process Interaction Streams