Reference documentation and code samples for the Google Cloud PHP shared dependency, providing functionality useful to all components. Client class Blob.
Represents a Blob value.
Blobs can be used to store binary across data various Google Cloud services.
Example:
use Google\Cloud\Core\Blob;
$blob = new Blob(file_get_contents(__DIR__ .'/family-photo.jpg'));
// Get the value of a blob by casting to a string.
echo (string) $blob;
Namespace
Google \ Cloud \ Core
Methods
__construct
Create a blob
Parameter
Name
Description
value
string|resource|Psr\Http\Message\StreamInterface
The blob value
get
Get the blob contents as a stream
Example:
$value = $blob->get();
Returns
Type
Description
Psr\Http\Message\StreamInterface
__toString
Cast the blob to a string
Returns
Type
Description
string
jsonSerialize
Implement JsonSerializable by returning a base64 encoded string of the blob
