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  function eeval($string)
  {
    $result = @eval($string);
    if( isset($php_errormsg) )
      throw new Exception($php_errormsg);
    return $result;
  }



In the process of writing a MogileFS client in PHP, I discovered there’s no no straight forward way to issue a PUT request using CURL where the body of the request comes from a string, rather than a file. Luckily, PHP 5.2 introduces memory based streams…

 

   $fh = fopen('php://memory', 'rw');
    fwrite($fh, $dataToPut);
    rewind($fh);
   $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILE, $fh);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, $length);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PUT, 4);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, Array('Expect: '));
    $response = curl_exec($ch);
    fclose($fh);



PHP offers a way to parse a stream handle, but not way to parse just a string. Here’s a simple/lazy way to parse a single CSV line in PHP:



function parseCSV($str, $delimiter = ',', $enclosure = '"',  
$len = 4096)
{
  $fh = fopen('php://memory', 'rw');
  fwrite($fh, $str);
  rewind($fh);
  $result = fgetcsv( $fh, $len, $delimiter, $enclosure );
  fclose($fh);
  return $result;
}