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<h1 class="refname">bzopen</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 4 >= 4.0.4, PHP 5)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">bzopen</span> — <span class="dc-title">Opens a bzip2 compressed file</span></p>
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<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
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<span class="type">resource</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>bzopen</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$filename</code></span>
, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$mode</code></span>
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<p class="para rdfs-comment">
<span class="function"><strong>bzopen()</strong></span> opens a bzip2 (.bz2) file for reading or
writing.
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<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
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<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">filename</code></em></span>
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The name of the file to open.
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<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">mode</code></em></span>
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Similar to the <span class="function"><a href="function.fopen.html" class="function">fopen()</a></span> function, only 'r' (read)
and 'w' (write) are supported. Everything else will cause bzopen
to return <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong>.
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<div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-function.bzopen-returnvalues">
<h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
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If the open fails, <span class="function"><strong>bzopen()</strong></span> returns <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong>, otherwise
it returns a pointer to the newly opened file.
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<h3 class="title">Examples</h3>
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<p><strong>Example #1 <span class="function"><strong>bzopen()</strong></span> example</strong></p>
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<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /><br />$file </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"/tmp/foo.bz2"</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$bz </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">bzopen</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$file</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"r"</span><span style="color: #007700">) or die(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Couldn't open </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$file</span><span style="color: #DD0000"> for reading"</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">bzclose</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$bz</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
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<div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-function.bzopen-seealso">
<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
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<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.bzclose.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">bzclose()</a> - Close a bzip2 file</span></li>
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