gzinflate
gzopen("php://output","wb") doesn't work on a web server, nor does fopen("compress.zlib://php://output","wb").
Here is a snippet to gzip a file and output it on the fly, without using a temporary file, without reading the file into memory, and without reading the file more than once:
<?php
$fin = fopen($file, "rb");
if ($fin !== FALSE) {
$fout = fopen("php://output", "wb");
if ($fout !== FALSE) {
// write gzip header
fwrite($fout, "\x1F\x8B\x08\x08".pack("V", filemtime($file))."\0\xFF", 10);
// write the original file name
$oname = str_replace("\0", "", basename($file));
fwrite($fout, $oname."\0", 1+strlen($oname));
// add the deflate filter using default compression level
$fltr = stream_filter_append($fout, "zlib.deflate", STREAM_FILTER_WRITE, -1);
// set up the CRC32 hashing context
$hctx = hash_init("crc32b");
// turn off the time limit
if (!ini_get("safe_mode")) set_time_limit(0);
$con = TRUE;
$fsize = 0;
while (($con !== FALSE) && !feof($fin)) {
// deflate works best with buffers >32K
$con = fread($fin, 64 * 1024);
if ($con !== FALSE) {
hash_update($hctx, $con);
$clen = strlen($con);
$fsize += $clen;
fwrite($fout, $con, $clen);
}
}
// remove the deflate filter
stream_filter_remove($fltr);
// write the CRC32 value
// hash_final is a string, not an integer
$crc = hash_final($hctx, TRUE);
// need to reverse the hash_final string so it's little endian
fwrite($fout, $crc[3].$crc[2].$crc[1].$crc[0], 4);
// write the original uncompressed file size
fwrite($fout, pack("V", $fsize), 4);
fclose($fout);
}
fclose($fin);
}
?>
gzopen
(PHP 4, PHP 5)
gzopen — Open gz-file
Description
resource gzopen
( string
$filename
, string $mode
[, int $use_include_path = 0
] )Opens a gzip (.gz) file for reading or writing.
gzopen() can be used to read a file which is not in gzip format; in this case gzread() will directly read from the file without decompression.
Parameters
-
filename -
The file name.
-
mode -
As in fopen() (rb or wb) but can also include a compression level (wb9) or a strategy: f for filtered data as in wb6f, h for Huffman only compression as in wb1h. (See the description of deflateInit2 in zlib.h for more information about the strategy parameter.)
-
use_include_path -
You can set this optional parameter to 1, if you want to search for the file in the include_path too.
Return Values
Returns a file pointer to the file opened, after that, everything you read from this file descriptor will be transparently decompressed and what you write gets compressed.
If the open fails, the function returns FALSE.
Examples
Example #1 gzopen() Example
<?php
$fp = gzopen("/tmp/file.gz", "r");
?>
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User Contributed Notes
gzopen - [7 notes]
David Gero dave at havidave dot com ¶
1 year ago
plasma ¶
4 years ago
This worked unstable for me under high load (50+ files per second):
<?php
$gz = gzopen ( $file, 'w9' );
gzwrite ( $gz, $content );
gzclose ( $gz );
?>
The following works fine:
<?php
$f = fopen ( $file, 'w' );
fwrite ( $f, gzcompress ( $content, 9 ) );
fclose ( $f );
?>
katzlbtjunk at hotmail dot com ¶
5 years ago
WARNING gzopen and gzread have a major disadvantage. They makes NO checksum and NO length verification of the gzipped data and discard this valuable information. This should be documented here.
rob at digital-crocus dot com ¶
8 years ago
dtorop932 at hotmail dot com's comments, according to my tests, is incorrect. That code wishes to download the entire file before parsing, which is inconvinient. The wget method works though.
pentek_imre at mailbox dot hu ¶
8 years ago
Be aware that when opening a remote file on a http server the gzopen will return by default false after 120 seconds waiting to any answer.
dtorop932 at hotmail dot com ¶
8 years ago
RE dubious's comment: "Being able to read gzip streams from ftp and http is near the top of my personal wishlist at the moment..."
One way to read a gzip stream over http is to daisychain stream wrappers, e.g.:
<?
$fp = fopen("compress.zlib://http://some.website.org/example.gz", "r");
?>
-delete-this-part-dubious at 2xtreme dot net ¶
11 years ago
"On the fly" gunzipping actually DOES seem to work - it just appears that only LOCAL streams/files (including php://stdin) can be accessed for some reason. I THINK (but have not yet tested) that you could similarly gzopen "php://stdout" and pass a stream of gzipped data to the browser (when run from a web page) or console (when run standalone) through there.
I HAVE tested scripts from the command line like:
wget -q -O- ftp://some.host.net/pub/some_gzip_file.gz | php gunzip_stuff.php
where gunzip_stuff.php would be a script that gzopened "php://stdin" and did gzgets from that stream, and it seems to work fine, but that obviously doesn't help someone wanting to grab gzipped streams from remote sites from a web-based script.
Being able to read gzip streams from ftp and http is near the top of my personal wishlist at the moment...