Main Menu

PHP Tools
PHP Help Request
PHP Editors Newsletter
Editor Search
Reviewed PHP Editors
Latest News
Submit News
PHP Tutorials
PHP Book Reviews
Online Book Chapters
PHP Games

Forums

PHP Desktop Editors
Other PHP Tools
PHP Contests
PHP Programming Help
Linux Help
Apache Help
MySQL Help
PHP Games
PHP Jobs
PHP Forums Home

Programming Contest

PHP Contests
PHP Contests Archive

Documentation

PHP Manual
PEAR Manual
PHP-GTK Manual
Smarty Manual
PostgreSQL Manual
CSS 2 Reference
Redhat Linux 9
HTML 4.01
Apache 2 Manual

Partner Sites

Ajax Tutorials
Webmaster Resources
Web Templates
PHP Scripts
PHP Code Examples
Learn PHP playing Trivia
PHP & MySQL Forums
Web Development Index
web site templates

bzdecompress

(PHP 4 >= 4.3.3, PHP 5)

bzdecompress -- Decompresses bzip2 encoded data

Description

mixed bzdecompress ( string source [, int small] )

bzdecompress() decompresses the given string containing bzip2 encoded data.

Parameters

source

The string to decompress.

small

If TRUE, an alternative decompression algorithm will be used which uses less memory (the maximum memory requirement drops to around 2300K) but works at roughly half the speed.

See the bzip2 documentation for more information about this feature.

Return Values

The decompressed string or number of error in case of error.

Examples

Example 1. Decompressing a String
<?php $start_str = "This is not an honest face?"; $bzstr = bzcompress($start_str); echo "Compressed String: "; echo $bzstr; echo "\n<br />\n"; $str = bzdecompress($bzstr); echo "Decompressed String: "; echo $str; echo "\n<br />\n"; ?>

bzdecompress

Description

Parameters

Return Values

Examples

See Also