<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >gzread</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="gzputs" HREF="function.gzputs.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="gzrewind" HREF="function.gzrewind.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.gzputs.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.gzrewind.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.gzread" ></A >gzread</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN99262" ></A ><P > (PHP 3, PHP 4 )</P >gzread -- Binary-safe gz-file read</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN99265" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >string <B CLASS="methodname" >gzread</B > ( resource zp, int length)<BR ></BR ><P > <B CLASS="function" >gzread()</B > reads up to <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >length</I ></TT > bytes from the gz-file pointer referenced by <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >zp</I ></TT >. Reading stops when <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >length</I ></TT > (uncompressed) bytes have been read or EOF is reached, whichever comes first. </P ><P > <DIV CLASS="informalexample" ><A NAME="AEN99282" ></A ><P ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" >// get contents of a gz-file into a string $filename = "/usr/local/something.txt.gz"; $zd = gzopen ($filename, "r"); $contents = gzread ($zd, 10000); gzclose ($zd);</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P ></P ></DIV > </P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.gzwrite.html" ><B CLASS="function" >gzwrite()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.gzopen.html" ><B CLASS="function" >gzopen()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.gzgets.html" ><B CLASS="function" >gzgets()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.gzgetss.html" ><B CLASS="function" >gzgetss()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.gzfile.html" ><B CLASS="function" >gzfile()</B ></A >, and <A HREF="function.gzpassthru.html" ><B CLASS="function" >gzpassthru()</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.gzputs.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.gzrewind.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >gzputs</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" >gzrewind</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >