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Subject: Memory streams
From: adrian.drumea@sysmart.com ("Adrian Drumea")

Hello,

I'm new to this list, so I aplogize if this is not the place to 
post this message.

I was using today the getimagesize() function which takes a file 
name. I was trying to take the size of an image decoded using
base64_decode from a string. So I have my decoded data in $data.
Now to apply getimagesize() I need a file, so I saved $data to 
a temporary file and everything worked. I then tried to avoid
the temporary file by using i/o streams, but I didn't manage to 
do this. 

Correct me if I am wrong, but from what I see there is no way
to create a memory stream using php://memory and also attach
a unique key to it. If that would be possible, I could create 
a memory stream with a unique key, write the data into it and
then pass this memory stream name to the getimagesize() function.

In this way, all functions requiring a file could be used on
a memory buffer. 

Adrian Drumea