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Last updated: Thu, 19 May 2005

gzgets

(PHP 3, PHP 4, PHP 5)

gzgets -- Get line from file pointer

Description

string gzgets ( resource zp, int length )

Gets a (uncompressed) string of up to length - 1 bytes read from the given file pointer. Reading ends when length - 1 bytes have been read, on a newline, or on EOF (whichever comes first).

Parameters

zp

The gz-file pointer. It must be valid, and must point to a file successfully opened by gzopen().

length

The length of data to get.

Return Values

The uncompressed string, or FALSE on error.

Examples

Example 1. gzgets() example

<?php
$handle = gzopen('somefile.gz', 'r');
while (!gzeof($handle)) {
   $buffer = gzgets($handle, 4096);
   echo $buffer;
}
gzlose($handle);
?>

See Also

gzopen()
gzgetc()
gzwrite()



User Contributed Notes
gzgets
prismngp1 at yahoo dot com
10-Aug-2002 07:19
<?
// this is simple code by VIJAY to unzip .gz file
$file = "/absolute/path/to/your/file" ;
$fp = fopen("$file", "w") ;
// file to be unzipped on your server
$filename = "filename.gz" ;
$zp = gzopen($filename, "r");

if ($zp)
{
  while (!gzeof($zp))
  {
   $buff1 = gzgets ($zp, 4096) ;
   fputs($fp, $buff1) ;
  }               
}           
gzclose($zp) ;
fclose($fp) ;
?>

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