People know all about storing binary data in database server as BLOBs. How would one accomplish the same thing in PHP?
In other words, how do i store blobs in a php variable?
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People know all about storing binary data in database server as BLOBs. How would one accomplish the same thing in PHP?
In other words, how do i store blobs in a php variable?
As PHP doesn’t have Unicode support you can safely use normal strings as binary storage. Most (all?) functions are null-safe, too, so you shouldn’t get any problems because of that either.
PS: Theoretically you could prefix all binary strings with
b(e.g.b'binary data'). This is a forward compatability token to make sure that strings that expect to be handled as binary will really be handled so even than Unicode support is available.