PHP strings + gzip files

andreiga

I'm using XSLT extension to process a XML database. I've converted some XML into gzip format but when i'm trying to decompress the data the string variable (e.g. $xml) is holding only 200 chars.
I've been trying to read with fopen and fread and the same thing is happing.
I'm using Apache 1.3.26, PHP 4.2.2 and WinXP.
Is there a special thing required to do?

P.S. The compressed files are ok because I've uncompressed them with programs (gunzip, Windows Commander etc.)

mattuu

I'm curious now. Let's say you executed these various things, what output do you get:

First, make a file filled with around 1000 'x' characters. Then:

<?php

$fp = fopen("x.txt", "r");
$teststr = fread($fp, filesize("x.txt"));
echo $teststr;

?>

And how about if you just do:

<?php

$teststr = "";
for ($x = 0; $x < 1024; $x++) {
  $teststr .= "x";
}
echo $teststr;
?>

If either of those fails to print the full string expected, then add this line before each echo:

print "Line size is " . strlen($teststr) . "<BR>\n";

Maybe this can give a clue as to what the issue is. If you have the same problem with fread, though, it isn't an issue with XML.

andreiga

Your "fread" code worked but that was not the problem.
I am a C++ experienced programmer but I'm a newbie in PHP. So I tried the "rb" paramter because I'm a under Windows and everything worked very well.
It's my fault but also the gzip manual fault (in the php_manual) because it doesn't say anything about the binary parameter (filestream pages say it is required under Windows). And I don't know why it is required under gzip since the file source can be only in binary format.
Anyway, thanks a lot for your help!