<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >readgzfile</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="gzwrite" HREF="function.gzwrite.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Extending PHP 4.0" HREF="zend.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.gzwrite.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="zend.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.readgzfile" ></A >readgzfile</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN99417" ></A ><P > (PHP 3, PHP 4 )</P >readgzfile -- Output a gz-file</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN99420" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >int <B CLASS="methodname" >readgzfile</B > ( string filename [, int use_include_path])<BR ></BR ><P > Reads a file, decompresses it and writes it to standard output. </P ><P > <B CLASS="function" >readgzfile()</B > can be used to read a file which is not in gzip format; in this case <B CLASS="function" >readgzfile()</B > will directly read from the file without decompression. </P ><P > Returns the number of (uncompressed) bytes read from the file. If an error occurs, <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT > is returned and unless the function was called as <TT CLASS="literal" >@readgzfile</TT >, an error message is printed. </P ><P > The file <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >filename</I ></TT > will be opened from the filesystem and its contents written to standard output. </P ><P > You can use the optional second parameter and set it to "1", if you want to search for the file in the <A HREF="configuration.directives.html#ini.include-path" >include_path</A >, too. </P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.gzpassthru.html" ><B CLASS="function" >gzpassthru()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.gzfile.html" ><B CLASS="function" >gzfile()</B ></A >, and <A HREF="function.gzopen.html" ><B CLASS="function" >gzopen()</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.gzwrite.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="zend.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >gzwrite</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" >Extending PHP 4.0</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >