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Small bzip2 Example

This example opens a temporary file and writes a test string to it, then prints out the contents of the file.

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This example opens a temporary file and writes a test string to it, then prints out the contents of the file.

Small bzip2 Example

php
<?php

$filename = "/tmp/testfile.bz2";
$str = "This is a test string.\n";

// open file for writing
$bz = bzopen($filename, "w");

// write string to file
bzwrite($bz, $str);

// close file
bzclose($bz);

// open file for reading
$bz = bzopen($filename, "r");

// read 10 characters
echo bzread($bz, 10);

// output until end of the file (or the next 1024 char) and close it.
echo bzread($bz);

bzclose($bz);

?>

Source: reference/bzip2/examples.xml · from the official PHP manual (php/doc-en)