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# bzopen

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.4)

bzopen -- Open a bzip2 compressed file

## Description

``int bzopen` (string filename, string mode)`

Opens a bzip2 (.bz2) file for reading or writing. `filename` is the name of the file to open. `mode` is similar to the fopen() function (`r' for read, `w' for write, etc.).

If the open fails, the function returns `FALSE`, otherwise it returns a pointer to the newly opened file.

Example 1. bzopen() Example
    <?php
    $bz = bzopen("/tmp/foo.bz2", "r");
    $decompressed_file = bzread($bz, filesize("/tmp/foo.bz2"));
    bzclose($bz);

    print( "The contents of /tmp/foo.bz2 are: " );
    print( "\n<br>\n" );
    print( $decompressed_file );
    ?>

See also bzclose().

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