bzdecompress
Decompresses bzip2 encoded data
Description
stringintfalse bzdecompress(string $data, bool $use_less_memory = false)
Parameters
-
data
-
The string to decompress.
-
use_less_memory
-
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 ยป bzip2 documentation for more
information about this feature.
Return Values
The decompressed string, or false or an error number if an error occurred.
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";
?>