What is the equivalent of c#'s
byte[] buffer = File.ReadAllBytes(openFileDialog1.FileName);
in php?
Should I use file_read_contents(file) and then unpack the string into byte array?
I have zero experience in C# but I think what you're looking for is something like this
<?php
$file = fopen("file.txt","r");
while (! feof ($file))
echo fgetc($file);
fclose($file);
Your answer isn't very clear, I think you mean reading file as an array of bytes. You can use unpack() function for this purpose:
$filename = "myFile.txt";
$handle = fopen($filename, "rb");
$fsize = filesize($filename);
$contents = fread($handle, $fsize);
$byteArray = unpack("N*",$contents);
print_r($byteArray);
for($n = 0; $n < 16; $n++)
{
echo $byteArray [$n].'<br/>';
}
otherwise you can get at the individual bytes similar to how you would in C:
$data = file_get_contents("myFile.txt");
for($i = 0; $i < strlen($data); ++$i) {
$char = $data[$i];
echo "Byte $i: $char
";
}