Wrapper Operations
With the exception of the url_stat() method, each of the wrapper operations located prior to the const char *label element are used with active stream instances. The purpose of each of these methods are as follows:
stream_opener() |
Instantiates a stream instance. This method is called when one of the fopen() userspace functions is called. The php_stream instance returned by this function is the internal representation of a file handle resource such as what is returned by fopen(). All-in-one functions like file(), file_get_contents(), file_put_contents(), readfile(), and too many others to enumerate also use this wrapper ops method when a wrapped resource is requested. |
stream_closer() |
Called when a stream instance is shutting down. Any resources allocated by stream_opener() should be freed during this phase. |
stream_stat() |
Analogous to the userspace fstat() function, this method should fill the ssb structurewhich in practice only contains a struct statbuf sb; element. |
dir_opener() |
Behaves in the same way as stream_opener(), except that it's called in response to the opendir() family of userspace functions. The underlying stream implementation used by the directory streams follows the same basic rules as file streams; however, a directory stream only needs to return struct dirent-sized records containing the filename found in the opened directory. |
Static Wrapper Operations
The remainder of the wrapper op methods perform atomic operations on URI paths according to the semantics of their protocol wrapper. Only url_stat() and unlink() existed in the PHP 4.3 php_stream_wrapper_ops structure; the remaining methods were defined in PHP 5.0 and should be excluded through appropriate #ifdef blocks.
url_stat() |
Used by the stat() family of functions to return file metadata such as access permissions, size, and type; also used to access, modify, and create dates. Although this function appears in the php_stream_wrapper_ops structure all the way back to PHP 4.3 when the streams layer was introduced, it was never executed by the userspace stat() functions until PHP 5.0. |
unlink() |
Named according to posix filesystem semantics, an unlink() almost always refers to file deletion. If deletion does not make sense for the current wrapper, such as the built-in http:// wrapper, this method should be defined to NULL, allowing the core to issue an appropriate error message. |
rename() |
When both the $from and $to parameters to the userspace rename() function refer to the same underlying wrapper, PHP will dispatch the rename request to that wrapper's rename method. |
mkdir() & rmdir() |
These two methods map directly to their userspace counterparts. |