[PHP] printing special characters in PHP

[Antonio Bassinger]

Dear ALL,

I've an binary file with special (non-printable) characters including '<'
'/' & '>'. I retrieve this file from the database, into a variable
$binaryFILE.

I then copy the content to a temporary file, opened with handle $handle :


if (!fwrite($handle, $binaryFILE)) {
          echo "Failed to copy $bname...";
      }
      else
      {
          echo "Success";
      }

The file copies to a file on the filesystem correctly. However, if I try to
print out the characters of this file on a browser, using

echo $binaryFILE;

the output isn't the same. The characters '<' and '>' and anything included
within is not printed.

I tried printing line by line, using:

$binaryMS = explode("",$binaryMMS);
foreach ($binaryFILE as $ii)
{
 echo $ii;
}

However, no change in result.

Do I print character by character? I shall appreciate any pointers on this
problem.

Many Thanks
Antonio