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gzcompress

Name

gzcompress — Compress a string of data using ZLIB compression.

Synopsis

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

Returns

A string of compressed data or FALSE on failure

Description

Compresses a string of data starting with 0 compression to level 9 compression. The compressed data useing the ZLIB compression alogrithm, but is not the same as a gzip file, which has header information.

Version

PHP 4 >= 4.0.1

Example

Example 1462. Compress data using ZLIB compression

$gzcompressed = gzcompress('Compress this.', 9);
print $gzcompressed;

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