<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >bzread</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Bzip2 Compression Functions" HREF="ref.bzip2.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="bzopen" HREF="function.bzopen.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="bzwrite" HREF="function.bzwrite.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation 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.bzopen.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.bzwrite.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.bzread" ></A >bzread</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN10012" ></A ><P > (PHP 4 >= 4.0.4)</P >bzread -- Binary safe bzip2 file read</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN10015" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >string <B CLASS="methodname" >bzread</B > ( resource bz [, int length])<BR ></BR ><P > <B CLASS="function" >bzread()</B > reads up to <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >length</I ></TT > bytes from the bzip2 file pointer referenced by <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >bz</I ></TT >. Reading stops when <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >length</I ></TT > (uncompressed) bytes have been read or EOF is reached, whichever comes first. If the optional parameter <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >length</I ></TT > is not specified, <B CLASS="function" >bzread()</B > will read 1024 (uncompressed) bytes at a time. </P ><P > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN10034" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. <B CLASS="function" >bzread()</B > Example</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" ><?php $bz = bzopen("/tmp/foo.bz2", "r"); $str = bzread($bz, 2048); print( $str ); ?></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.bzwrite.html" ><B CLASS="function" >bzwrite()</B ></A > and <A HREF="function.bzopen.html" ><B CLASS="function" >bzopen()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.bzopen.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.bzwrite.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >bzopen</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.bzip2.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >bzwrite</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >