Bzip2 Functions

bzopen

Opens a bzip2 compressed file

Description

resourcefalse bzopen(stringresource $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.

Return Values

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

Examples

Example #1 bzopen example

<?php

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

bzclose($bz);

?>

See Also

bzclose