<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >gzuncompress</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="Zlib Compression Functions" HREF="ref.zlib.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="gztell" HREF="function.gztell.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="gzwrite" HREF="function.gzwrite.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.gztell.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.gzwrite.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.gzuncompress" ></A >gzuncompress</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN99355" ></A ><P > (PHP 4 >= 4.0.1)</P >gzuncompress -- Uncompress a deflated string</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN99358" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >string <B CLASS="methodname" >gzuncompress</B > ( string data [, int length])<BR ></BR ><P > This function takes <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >data</I ></TT > compressed by <A HREF="function.gzcompress.html" ><B CLASS="function" >gzcompress()</B ></A > and returns the original uncompressed data or <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT > on error. The function will return an error if the uncompressed data is more than 32768 times the length of the compressed input <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >data</I ></TT > or more than the optional parameter <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >length</I ></TT >. </P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.gzdeflate.html" ><B CLASS="function" >gzdeflate()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.gzinflate.html" ><B CLASS="function" >gzinflate()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.gzcompress.html" ><B CLASS="function" >gzcompress()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.gzencode.html" ><B CLASS="function" >gzencode()</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.gztell.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.gzwrite.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >gztell</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.zlib.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >gzwrite</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >