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<h1 class="refname">MongoGridFSFile::getBytes</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PECL mongo >=0.9.0)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">MongoGridFSFile::getBytes</span> — <span class="dc-title">Returns this file's contents as a string of bytes</span></p>
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<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
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<span class="modifier">public</span> <span class="type">string</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>MongoGridFSFile::getBytes</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam">void</span>
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Warning: this will load the file into memory. If the file is bigger than
your memory, this will cause problems!
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<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
<p class="para">This function has no parameters.</p>
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Returns a string of the bytes in the file.
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<p><strong>Example #1 <span class="methodname"><strong>MongoGridFSFile::getBytes()</strong></span> example</strong></p>
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<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /><br />$images </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$db</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">my_db</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">getGridFS</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'images'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$image </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$images</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">findOne</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'jwage.png'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">header</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'Content-type: image/png;'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br />echo </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$image</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">getBytes</span><span style="color: #007700">();<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
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