bzopen

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.4, PHP 5, PHP 7)

Opens a bzip2 compressed file

resource bzopen ( mixed $file, string $mode )

bzopen() opens a bzip2 (.bz2) file for reading or writing.

Parameters:

file

The name of the file to open, or an existing stream resource.

mode

The modes 'r' (read), and 'w' (write) are supported. Everything else will cause bzopen() to return FALSE.

Returns:

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

Examples:

bzopen() example

<?php

$file = "/tmp/foo.bz2";
$bz = bzopen($file, "r") or die("Couldn't open $file for reading");

bzclose($bz);

?>