Writing binary files such as image files

[suikki]

I cannot find how to write a binary file such as as data into a .bmp image file.I tried the following but it simply writes ascii bytes of the characters instead of their binary value $head[0]= "1";$head[1]= "12";$head [2] ="34"; $filein=fopen('code.bmp','wb'); //File to be convertedfor ($i=0; $i < 3; ++$i) {fputs ($filein,$head[$i],2);}fclose($filein); Chuck S.

[jeffman]

For starters, don't put the numbers in quotation marks.

[suikki]

Solution found:$head[0]= dechex("120");$head[1]= dechex("112");$head [2] = dechex("64");if (!unlink('code.bmp')) echo "Could not delete this file"; else echo "new file";$filein=fopen('code.bmp','wb'); //File to be convertedfor ($i=0; $i < 3; ++$i) {fputs ($filein,$head[$i],2);}fclose($filein); thanks for your comments

[Ingolme]

That sounds weird. If you want to write binary characters you should use the chr() method. Using dechex() is just going to print the hexadecimal digits in string form into the file, literally characters like "5" and "F".