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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+
+<!-- $Revision: 299506 $ -->
+<refentry xml:id="mongogridfsfile.getresource" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
+ <refnamediv>
+  <refname>MongoGridFSFile::getResource</refname>
+  <refpurpose>Returns a resource that can be used to read the stored file</refpurpose>
+ </refnamediv>
+
+ <refsect1 role="description">
+  &reftitle.description;
+  <methodsynopsis>
+   <modifier>public</modifier> <type>stream</type><methodname>MongoGridFSFile::getResource</methodname>
+   <void/>
+  </methodsynopsis>
+  <para>
+   This method returns a stream resource that can be used with all file
+   functions in PHP. The contents of the file are pulled out of MongoDB on the
+   fly, so that the whole file does not have to be loaded into memory first.
+  </para>
+  <para>
+   At most two GridFSFile chunks will be loaded in memory.
+  </para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1 role="parameters">
+  &reftitle.parameters;
+  &no.function.parameters;
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1 role="returnvalues">
+  &reftitle.returnvalues;  
+  <para>
+   Returns a resource that can be used to read the file with
+  </para>
+ </refsect1>
+ 
+ <refsect1 role="examples">
+  &reftitle.examples;
+  <example>
+   <title><methodname>MongoGridFSFile::getResource</methodname> example</title>
+   <programlisting role="php">
+<![CDATA[
+<?php
+$m = new Mongo;
+$images = $m->my_db->getGridFS('images');
+
+$image = $images->findOne('mongo.png');
+
+header('Content-type: image/png;');
+$stream = $image->getResource();
+
+while (!feof($stream)) {
+    echo fread($stream, 8192);
+}
+?>
+]]>
+   </programlisting>
+  </example>
+ </refsect1>
+
+</refentry>
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