<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >readgzfile</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.44"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="manual.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Compression functions" HREF="ref.zlib.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="gzwrite" HREF="function.gzwrite.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Database (dbm-style) abstraction layer functions" HREF="ref.dba.html"></HEAD ><BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.gzwrite.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="ref.dba.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.readgzfile" >readgzfile</A ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN6556" ></A >readgzfile -- output a gz-file</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN6559" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><DIV CLASS="funcsynopsis" ><P ></P ><CODE CLASS="FUNCDEF" >int readgzfile</CODE >(string filename, int [<SPAN CLASS="optional" >use_include_path</SPAN >]);<P ></P ></DIV ><P > Reads a file, decompresses it and writes it to standard output.</P ><P > Readgzfile() can be used to read a file which is not in gzip format; in this case readgzfile() will directly read from the file without decompression.</P ><P > Returns the number of (uncompressed) bytes read from the file. If an error occurs, false is returned and unless the function was called as @readgzfile, an error message is printed.</P ><P > The file <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >filename</I ></TT > will be opened from the filesystem and its contents written to standard output.</P ><P > You can use the optional second parameter and set it to "1", if you want to search for the file in the <A HREF="configuration.html#ini.include-path" >include_path</A >, too.</P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.gzpassthru.html" ><B CLASS="function" >gzpassthru()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.gzfile.html" ><B CLASS="function" >gzfile()</B ></A >, and <A HREF="function.gzopen.html" ><B CLASS="function" >gzopen()</B ></A >.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.gzwrite.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="manual.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.dba.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >gzwrite</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.zlib.html" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Database (dbm-style) abstraction layer functions</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >