Context parameters
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PHP Manual

# Supported Protocols and Wrappers

PHP comes with many built-in wrappers for various URL-style protocols for use with the filesystem functions such as fopen, copy, file_exists and filesize. In addition to these wrappers, it is possible to register custom wrappers using the stream_wrapper_register function.

> Note: The URL syntax used to describe a wrapper only supports the scheme://... syntax. The scheme:/ and scheme: syntaxes are not supported.

Table of Contents

- file:// — Accessing local filesystem
- http:// — Accessing HTTP(s) URLs
- ftp:// — Accessing FTP(s) URLs
- php:// — Accessing various I/O streams
- zlib:// — Compression Streams
- data:// — Data (RFC 2397)
- glob:// — Find pathnames matching pattern
- phar:// — PHP Archive
- ssh2:// — Secure Shell 2
- rar:// — RAR
- ogg:// — Audio streams
- expect:// — Process Interaction Streams