<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >gzencode</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="gzdeflate" HREF="function.gzdeflate.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="gzeof" HREF="function.gzeof.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.gzdeflate.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.gzeof.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.gzencode" ></A >gzencode</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN99001" ></A ><P > (PHP 4 >= 4.0.4)</P >gzencode -- Create a gzip compressed string</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN99004" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >string <B CLASS="methodname" >gzencode</B > ( string data [, int level [, int encoding_mode]])<BR ></BR ><P > This function returns a compressed version of the input <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >data</I ></TT > compatible with the output of the <B CLASS="command" >gzip</B > program, or <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT > if an error is encountered. The optional parameter <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >level</I ></TT > can be given as 0 for no compression up to 9 for maximum compression, if not given the default compression level will be the default compression level of the zlib library. </P ><P > You can also give <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FORCE_GZIP</B ></TT > (the default) or <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FORCE_DEFLATE</B ></TT > as optional third paramter <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >encoding_mode</I ></TT >. If you use <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FORCE_DEFLATE</B ></TT >, you get a standard zlib deflated string (inclusive zlib headers) after the gzip file header but without the trailing crc32 checksum. <DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B > <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >level</I ></TT > was added in PHP 4.2, before PHP 4.2 <B CLASS="function" >gzencode()</B > only had the <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >data</I ></TT > and (optional) <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >encoding_mode</I ></TT > parameters.. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV > </P ><P > The resulting data contains the appropriate headers and data structure to make a standard .gz file, e.g.: <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN99035" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. Creating a gzip file</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" ><?php $data = implode("", file("bigfile.txt")); $gzdata = gzencode($data, 9); $fp = fopen("bigfile.txt.gz", "w"); fwrite($fp, $gzdata); fclose($fp); ?></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P > For more information on the GZIP file format, see the document: <A HREF="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1952.txt" TARGET="_top" >GZIP file format specification version 4.3</A > (RFC 1952). </P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.gzcompress.html" ><B CLASS="function" >gzcompress()</B ></A >. <A HREF="function.gzuncompress.html" ><B CLASS="function" >gzuncompress()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.gzdeflate.html" ><B CLASS="function" >gzdeflate()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.gzinflate.html" ><B CLASS="function" >gzinflate()</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.gzdeflate.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.gzeof.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >gzdeflate</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" >gzeof</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >