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Name

gzencode — Compresses data using the GZIP data format.

Synopsis

string gzencode(data[, level]); string data: A string of data int level (optional): Level of compression

Returns

A string of compressed data on success or FALSE on error

Description

Simliar to gzcompress but returns compressed data with header information, so the data can be written directly to file. This example is similair to creating a file with gzopen.

Version

PHP 4 >= 4.0.4

Example

Example 1466. Compress data with the GZIP data format

$data = gzencode("Compress this!", 9);
$fp = fopen("myfile.txt.gz", "w");
fwrite($fp, $data);
fclose($fp);
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