<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Introduction</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="book.dio.html">Direct IO</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="dio.setup.html">Installing/Configuring</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="book.dio.html">Direct IO</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="intro.dio" class="preface"> <h1 class="title">Introduction</h1> <p class="para"> PHP supports the direct io functions as described in the Posix Standard (Section 6) for performing I/O functions at a lower level than the C-Language stream I/O functions ( <span class="function"><a href="function.fopen.html" class="function">fopen()</a></span>, <span class="function"><a href="function.fread.html" class="function">fread()</a></span>,..). The use of the DIO functions should be considered only when direct control of a device is needed. In all other cases, the standard <a href="book.filesystem.html" class="link">filesystem</a> functions are more than adequate. </p> <blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>: <p class="para"> This extension has been moved to the <a href="http://pecl.php.net/" class="link external">» PECL</a> repository and is no longer bundled with PHP as of PHP 5.1.0. </p> </p></blockquote> <p class="para"> This extension is only available on Windows Platforms as of PHP 5.0.0 </p> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="book.dio.html">Direct IO</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="dio.setup.html">Installing/Configuring</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="book.dio.html">Direct IO</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>