Protocols and encapsulation protocols supported by PHP

PHP has a number of built-in URL-style encapsulation protocols that can be used for file system functions like fopen (), copy (), File_exists (), and FileSize (). In addition to these encapsulation protocols, a custom encapsulation protocol can be registered through Stream_wrapper_register ().

Note: The URL syntax used to describe an encapsulation protocol only supports scheme://... 's syntax. scheme:/ and scheme: The syntax is not supported.

file://-accessing the local file system

http://-access to HTTP (s) URLs

ftp://-access to FTP (s) URLs

php://-access to individual input/output streams (I/O streams)

zlib://-Compressed Stream

data://-data (RFC 2397)

glob://-Find matching file path mode

phar://-php Archive

Ssh2://-secure Shell 2

Rar://-rar

ogg://-Audio Stream

expect://-Processing of interactive streams

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