4 years ago

Category: PHP

Recently I inherited a project where all file attachments were stored in a database table in the format of 0xFFD8FFE000104A4649 I need PHP to be able to read and serve this data. My first thought was to try using base64_decode in case this was in a base64 encoding format.

The below block converts the data into a format PHP can read by issuing a shell command xxd with -r and -p options passing the command to a proc_open command to run and then using fwrite to return the data to $source Whilst this works it does rely on being able to run shell commands on your server. Another way is to use hex2bin function and remove the 0x characters from the data, this essentially does the same thing but the hex2bin does the heavy lifting.