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MongoGridFSFile::getResource — Returns a resource that can be used to read the stored file
This method returns a stream resource that can be used with all file functions in PHP. The contents of the file are pulled out of MongoDB on the fly, so that the whole file does not have to be loaded into memory first.
At most two GridFSFile chunks will be loaded in memory.
This function has no parameters.
Returns a resource that can be used to read the file with
Example #1 MongoGridFSFile::getResource() example
<?php
$m = new Mongo;
$images = $m->my_db->getGridFS('images');
$image = $images->findOne('mongo.png');
header('Content-type: image/png;');
$stream = $image->getResource();
while (!feof($stream)) {
echo fread($stream, 8192);
}
?>