Protocols and encapsulation protocols supported by php

PHP comes with many built-in URL-style wrapper protocols that can be used for file system functions like fopen(), copy(), file_exists() and filesize(). In addition to these packaging protocols, custom packaging protocols can also be registered through stream_wrapper_register().

Note: The URL syntax used to describe an encapsulation protocol only supports scheme://... syntax. scheme:/ and scheme: syntax are not supported.

file:// — access the local file system

http:// — access HTTP(s) URLs

ftp:// — access FTP(s) URLs

php:// — access individual input/output streams (I/O streams)

zlib:// — Compressed streams

data:// — Data (RFC 2397)

glob:// — Find matching file path patterns

phar:// — PHP archive

ssh2:// — Secure Shell 2

rar:// — RAR

ogg:// — Audio streaming

expect:// — Handle interactive streams