gzopen

[slippery]

(Newbie Coder)

I am unable to open a .gz compressed file even though I can open it using the fopen function. I have installed the zlib dll and can see no reason it won\'t work.

Here is my code:

<?php
$i = 0;
$filename = \"http://somewhere.com/somesort.gz\";
$fd = gzopen ($filename, \"r\");
while (!feof ($fd) and $i<5) {
$buffer = gzgets($fd, 4096);
echo $buffer;
?>

These are the error messages generated:

Warning: gzopen(\"http://somewhere.com/somesort.gz\",\"r\") - No error in z:/pathtothisfile/test.php4 on line 8

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in z:/pathtothisfile/test.php4 on line 9

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid Zlib file resource in z:/pathtothisfile/test.php4 on line 10

I just noticed that the error messages refer to the path to the file on my computer. Is this normal?

[Anon]

If I recall correctly, a gzfile descriptor must refer to a file on your server.

It is not exactly like fopen(), in that fopen could handle the url that is passed.

I may be wrong, and have been before... but perhaps you should try this:

<?php

$filename = "http://server.path/to.file.gz";
$fd = fopen($filename, "r");
//name our path, open the file.
$fileinput = fread($fd, filesize($filename));
fclose($fd);
//get the data, hold it in a local variable

$ucfile = uncompress($fileinput);
unset $fileinput;
//decompress string holding compressed data,
//drop the temp file, so as to not use more
//memory than necessary
echo $ucfile;
//may be a lot of data, but hey, at this
//point you can buffer it however you like.

?>