bzopen

Description

Opens a bzip2 (.bz2) file for reading or writing. filename is the name of the file to open. mode is similar to the fopen() function (`r' for read, `w' for write, etc.).

If the open fails, the function returns FALSE, otherwise it returns a pointer to the newly opened file.

Example 1. bzopen() Example <?php $bz = bzopen("/tmp/foo.bz2", "r"); $decompressed_file = ''; while (!feof($bz)) { $decompressed_file .= bzread($bz, 4096); } bzclose($bz); print( "The contents of /tmp/foo.bz2 are: " ); print( "\n<br>\n" ); print( $decompressed_file ); ?>

See also bzclose().