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<h1 class="title">Supported Protocols and Wrappers</h1>
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PHP comes with many built-in wrappers for various URL-style protocols
for use with the filesystem functions such as <span class="function"><a href="function.fopen.html" class="function">fopen()</a></span>,
<span class="function"><a href="function.copy.html" class="function">copy()</a></span>, <span class="function"><a href="function.file-exists.html" class="function">file_exists()</a></span> and
<span class="function"><a href="function.filesize.html" class="function">filesize()</a></span>.
In addition to these wrappers, it is possible to register custom wrappers
using the <span class="function"><a href="function.stream-wrapper-register.html" class="function">stream_wrapper_register()</a></span> function.
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<blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>:
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The URL syntax used to describe a wrapper only supports the
<em>scheme://...</em> syntax. The <em>scheme:/</em>
and <em>scheme:</em> syntaxes are not supported.
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<h2>Table of Contents</h2><ul class="chunklist chunklist_reference"><li><a href="wrappers.file.html">file://</a> — Accessing local filesystem</li><li><a href="wrappers.http.html">http://</a> — Accessing HTTP(s) URLs</li><li><a href="wrappers.ftp.html">ftp://</a> — Accessing FTP(s) URLs</li><li><a href="wrappers.php.html">php://</a> — Accessing various I/O streams</li><li><a href="wrappers.compression.html">zlib://</a> — Compression Streams</li><li><a href="wrappers.data.html">data://</a> — Data (RFC 2397)</li><li><a href="wrappers.glob.html">glob://</a> — Find pathnames matching pattern</li><li><a href="wrappers.phar.html">phar://</a> — PHP Archive</li><li><a href="wrappers.ssh2.html">ssh2://</a> — Secure Shell 2</li><li><a href="wrappers.rar.html">rar://</a> — RAR</li><li><a href="wrappers.audio.html">ogg://</a> — Audio streams</li><li><a href="wrappers.expect.html">expect://</a> — Process Interaction Streams</li></ul>
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