<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Decodes a gzip compressed string</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.gzcompress.html">gzcompress</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="function.gzdeflate.html">gzdeflate</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="ref.zlib.html">Zlib Functions</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="function.gzdecode" class="refentry"> <div class="refnamediv"> <h1 class="refname">gzdecode</h1> <p class="verinfo">(PHP 5 >= 5.4.0)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">gzdecode</span> — <span class="dc-title">Decodes a gzip compressed string</span></p> </div> <div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-function.gzdecode-description"> <h3 class="title">Description</h3> <div class="methodsynopsis dc-description"> <span class="type">string</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>gzdecode</strong></span> ( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$data</code></span> [, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">int</span> <code class="parameter">$length</code></span> ] )</div> <p class="para rdfs-comment"> This function returns a decoded version of the input <em><code class="parameter">data</code></em>. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-function.gzdecode-parameters"> <h3 class="title">Parameters</h3> <p class="para"> <dl> <dt> <span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">data</code></em></span> <dd> <p class="para"> The data to decode, encoded by <span class="function"><a href="function.gzencode.html" class="function">gzencode()</a></span>. </p> </dd> </dt> <dt> <span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">length</code></em></span> <dd> <p class="para"> The maximum length of data to decode. </p> </dd> </dt> </dl> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-function.gzdecode-returnvalues"> <h3 class="title">Return Values</h3> <p class="para"> The decoded string, or <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong> if an error occurred. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-function.gzdecode-seealso"> <h3 class="title">See Also</h3> <p class="para"> <ul class="simplelist"> <li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.gzencode.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">gzencode()</a> - Create a gzip compressed string</span></li> </ul> </p> </div> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.gzcompress.html">gzcompress</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="function.gzdeflate.html">gzdeflate</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="ref.zlib.html">Zlib Functions</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>