Creating binary files?

[rlogbeck]

I have a page written that helps users determine the optimal #s for development of players in a game. Right now I can only output it to the screen. Until recently that was alright but we have now 'broken' the output file of the original program and are looking to create the file ourselves from this script. The data from the original program can be viewed in a hex editor. When I create the file from my page it is a text only document. Is there a method I am missing somewhere that will allow me to create a binary file like that which the original program will create?

Thanks in advance!
Rob

[Weedpacket]

No, you're not really missing anything: you can use [man]fopen[/man], [man]fread[/man] and the rest to write binary files the same as any other. You might want to look at [man]pack[/man] and [man]sprintf[/man] to make turning data into binary a bit easier.