Saving a Base64 string to disk as a binary using PHP

Question

As a \"look under the covers\" tutorial for myself I am building a PHP script to gather emails from a POP3 mailbox. While attempting to make use of binary attachments I am

Answer 1

If you have a lot of data to write out that needs to be decoded before writing I would suggest using stream filters so decode the data as you write it...

$fh = fopen('where_you_are_writing', 'wb');
stream_filter_append($fh, 'convert.base64-decode');

// Do a lot of writing here. It will be automatically decoded from base64.

fclose($h);