MongoGridFSFile
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MongoGridFSFile::getBytes

(PECL mongo >=0.9.0)

MongoGridFSFile::getBytesReturns this file's contents as a string of bytes

Description

public string MongoGridFSFile::getBytes ( void )

Warning: this will load the file into memory. If the file is bigger than your memory, this will cause problems!

Parameters

This function has no parameters.

Return Values

Returns a string of the bytes in the file.


MongoGridFSFile
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