List of Supported Protocols/Wrappers

Table of Contents

• Filesystem
• HTTP and HTTPS
• FTP and FTPS
• PHP input/output streams
• Compression Streams
• Data (RFC 2397)
• Glob
• Phar
• Secure Shell 2
• Audio Streams
• Process Interaction Streams

The following is a list of the various URL style protocols that PHP has built-in for use with the filesystem functions such as fopen() and copy(). In addition to these wrappers, as of PHP 4.3.0, you can write your own wrappers using PHP script and stream_wrapper_register().

List of context options is available in the chapter Context options and parameters.