<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >bzopen</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="bzflush" HREF="function.bzflush.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="bzread" HREF="function.bzread.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.bzflush.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.bzread.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.bzopen" ></A >bzopen</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN9984" ></A ><P > (PHP 4 >= 4.0.4)</P >bzopen -- Open a bzip2 compressed file</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN9987" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >resource <B CLASS="methodname" >bzopen</B > ( string filename, string mode)<BR ></BR ><P > Opens a bzip2 (.bz2) file for reading or writing. <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >filename</I ></TT > is the name of the file to open. <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >mode</I ></TT > is similar to the <A HREF="function.fopen.html" ><B CLASS="function" >fopen()</B ></A > function (`r' for read, `w' for write, etc.). </P ><P > If the open fails, the function returns <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT >, otherwise it returns a pointer to the newly opened file. </P ><P > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN10005" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. <B CLASS="function" >bzopen()</B > Example</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" ><?php $bz = bzopen("/tmp/foo.bz2", "r"); $decompressed_file = bzread($bz, filesize("/tmp/foo.bz2")); bzclose($bz); print( "The contents of /tmp/foo.bz2 are: " ); print( "\n<br>\n" ); print( $decompressed_file ); ?></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.bzclose.html" ><B CLASS="function" >bzclose()</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.bzflush.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.bzread.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >bzflush</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" >bzread</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >