From:             php at richardneill dot org
Operating system: 
PHP version:      5.2.6
PHP Bug Type:     Feature/Change Request
Bug description:  wish: fwrite to support direct output of bytes (not cast to string)

Description:
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fwrite() outputs to file as a string. While this is usually a 
sensible default, it can be rather annoying when I actually want to 
output raw data.  I know about using chr(), but that's ugly at least.

My request: add an option to fwrite that lets you output a char, 
rather than a string.

[The chr() workaround is also not very visibly documented].


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