Question

So this is something that I have not been able to find any documentation on. I have a plain text string that I am trying to turn into a stream in php.

$myStr = "A bit of text +test +test2";
$stream = fopen('data://text/plain,' . $myStr, 'r');
var_dump(stream_get_contents($stream);

The output of this code is

A bit of text  test  test2

I tried using preg_replace to add an escape to the plus signs however this did not seem to have any effect. Any other ideas? Thanks

Answer 1

You could use base64_encode:

$myStr = "A bit of text +test +test2";
$stream = fopen('data://text/plain;base64,' . base64_encode($myStr), 'r');
var_dump(stream_get_contents($stream));

Here’s an example.

The reason for the issue is that it’s a URI, and in HTTP URIs a + is an encoded space. Your other choice is to use urlencode (example).