On Dec 13, 2007 7:44 AM, Bob Sabiston <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Dec 12, 2007, at 7:20 PM, Casey wrote:
>
> > Try gzuncompress();
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't gzuncompress used for 'gzip'
> files? Although they both use the same compression, gzip is specific
> to files and has header information not present in straight zlib
> data. And as I've mentioned, this is a normal file, not compressed --
> I'm just trying to read and decompress pieces of data within the file,
> which according to the documentation is something zlib does.
>
> I assume that most people use these functions for entire files, but
> surely someone has used it the other way as well?
>
> Thanks for any info.
> Bob
>
>
Zlib compression is what's used in Gzip. Just try it ;)
$uncompressed = gzuncompress(file_get_contents("binaryfile.ext"));
-Casey
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