[PHP] direct access to file uploads

[Thomas Bolioli]

I am new to PHP and am trying to get access to files that are uploaded. 
I have RTFM ;-) and have noticed that PHP writes the file to disk in a 
temporary location and provides a method/class with all of the 
information needed to access it. I am loading (PDF's) into a binary 
field in mySQL and find it rather inefficient to have the file written 
to disk, and then have it read off and then written back into the db 
which is ultimately written to disk. Is there a way I can get direct 
access to the file as it comes in. I noticed a user comment on 
predefined vars page mentioned $RAW_POST_DATA (or something like that) 
but no info on how to address it. Is that my answer and what do I do 
from there? It also seems to be depricated and I do not want to use 
something that will disappear soon.
Thanks in advance,
Tom

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