Write uploaded file directly into a file opened by fopen [PHP 4]

Hi. I have a problem where I have to be able to write an uploaded file directly into a file opened by fopen (Or more specifically, tmpfile). The only way I have found for saving an uploaded file, is move_uploaded_file, but that won't let you write through a file handle.

Is there some other way of making this happen?

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I have to be able to write an uploaded file directly into a file opened by fopen

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I didn't get what you want to do in particular.

http://de3.php.net/manual/en/functio...oaded-file.php
have you checked out the comment of andrew@euperia,com?
or try to use copy
http://de3.php.net/manual/en/function.copy.php

Sorry about that. Early start this morning. :)

I want to write an uploaded file directly into a file created through the tmpfile() function. This function only returns a file-handle, and you can't use move_uploaded_file to write into a file-handle (It only takes a filename parameter).

Is there any other way of accomplishing this, or do I have to resort to my 1337 h4x0ring skillz? ;)

If the uploaded files are textfiles you can use something like this

PHP Code:

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<?
 $file_stream=$_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'];
 $fp = tmpfile();
 fwrite($fp,file_get_contents($file_stream));
 rewind($fp);
 echo fread($fp, 1024);
 ?>

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Is there a special reason why you want to save the uploaded file
in a tmpfile() ?

Yep, there is actually. The files being uploaded are zip files, and I simply want the contents of them, I don't need the zip itself. Therefore I need to temporarily store the ZIP until I have extracted it. Would that work with the code you posted?

One idea I just though of was to simply call fopen on $_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'] directly. Would that work, or is there something preventing access to that file?

for unzipping I'm using this free lib
http://www.phpconcept.net/pclzip/index.en.php
$file_stream is the file selected by the user.

e.g.

PHP Code:

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<?
 require_once('pclzip.lib.php');
 $file_stream=$_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'];

 $archive = new PclZip($file_stream);
 if ($archive->extract() == 0) {
    die("Error : ".$archive->errorInfo(true));
  }
 ?>

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Thanks, I'll take a look at it.