<!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>Opens a file for output</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.ps-new.html">ps_new</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="function.ps-open-image-file.html">ps_open_image_file</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="ref.ps.html">PS Functions</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="function.ps-open-file" class="refentry"> <div class="refnamediv"> <h1 class="refname">ps_open_file</h1> <p class="verinfo">(PECL ps >= 1.1.0)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">ps_open_file</span> — <span class="dc-title">Opens a file for output</span></p> </div> <div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-function.ps-open-file-description"> <h3 class="title">Description</h3> <div class="methodsynopsis dc-description"> <span class="type">bool</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>ps_open_file</strong></span> ( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">resource</span> <code class="parameter">$psdoc</code></span> [, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$filename</code></span> ] )</div> <p class="para rdfs-comment"> Creates a new file on disk and writes the PostScript document into it. The file will be closed when <span class="function"><a href="function.ps-close.html" class="function">ps_close()</a></span> is called. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-function.ps-open-file-parameters"> <h3 class="title">Parameters</h3> <p class="para"> <dl> <dt> <span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">psdoc</code></em></span> <dd> <p class="para"> Resource identifier of the postscript file as returned by <span class="function"><a href="function.ps-new.html" class="function">ps_new()</a></span>. </p> </dd> </dt> <dt> <span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">filename</code></em></span> <dd> <p class="para"> The name of the postscript file. If <em><code class="parameter">filename</code></em> is not passed the document will be created in memory and all output will go straight to the browser. </p> </dd> </dt> </dl> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-function.ps-open-file-returnvalues"> <h3 class="title">Return Values</h3> <p class="para"> Returns <strong><code>TRUE</code></strong> on success or <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong> on failure. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-function.ps-open-file-seealso"> <h3 class="title">See Also</h3> <p class="para"> <ul class="simplelist"> <li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.ps-close.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">ps_close()</a> - Closes a PostScript document</span></li> </ul> </p> </div> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.ps-new.html">ps_new</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="function.ps-open-image-file.html">ps_open_image_file</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="ref.ps.html">PS Functions</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>