(PHP 4 >= 4.0.4, PHP 5)
bzread — Binary safe bzip2 file read
$bz
[, int $length = 1024
] )bzread() reads from the given bzip2 file pointer.
Reading stops when length (uncompressed) bytes have
been read or EOF is reached, whichever comes first.
bz
The file pointer. It must be valid and must point to a file successfully opened by bzopen().
length
If not specified, bzread() will read 1024 (uncompressed) bytes at a time. A maximum of 8192 uncompressed bytes will be read at a time.
Returns the uncompressed data, or FALSE on error.
Example #1 bzread() example
<?php
$file = "/tmp/foo.bz2";
$bz = bzopen($file, "r") or die("Couldn't open $file");
$decompressed_file = '';
while (!feof($bz)) {
$decompressed_file .= bzread($bz, 4096);
}
bzclose($bz);
echo "The contents of $file are: <br />\n";
echo $decompressed_file;
?>