gzencode

Create a gzip compressed string (PHP 4 >= 4.0.4)
string gzencode ( string data [, int level [, int encoding_mode]] )

This function returns a compressed version of the input data compatible with the output of the gzip program, or FALSE if an error is encountered. The optional parameter level can be given as 0 for no compression up to 9 for maximum compression, if not given the default compression level will be the default compression level of the zlib library.

You can also give FORCE_GZIP (the default) or FORCE_DEFLATE as optional third paramter encoding_mode. If you use FORCE_DEFLATE, you get a standard zlib deflated string (inclusive zlib headers) after the gzip file header but without the trailing crc32 checksum.

Note:

level was added in PHP 4.2, before PHP 4.2 gzencode() only had the data and (optional) encoding_mode parameters..

The resulting data contains the appropriate headers and data structure to make a standard .gz file, e.g.:

Example 1045. Creating a gzip file

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<?php
   $data = implode("", file("bigfile.txt"));
   $gzdata = gzencode($data, 9);
   $fp = fopen("bigfile.txt.gz", "w");
   fwrite($fp, $gzdata);
   fclose($fp);
?>

For more information on the GZIP file format, see the document: » GZIP file format specification version 4.3 (RFC 1952).

See also gzcompress(). gzuncompress(), gzdeflate(), gzinflate().

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