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zlib://

bzip2://

zip://

zlib:// -- bzip2:// -- zip://Compression Streams

Description

compress.zlib:// and compress.bzip2://

zlib: works like gzopen(), except that the stream can be used with fread() and the other filesystem functions. This is deprecated as of PHP 4.3.0 due to ambiguities with filenames containing ':' characters; use compress.zlib:// instead.

compress.zlib:// and compress.bzip2:// are equivalent to gzopen() and bzopen() respectively, and operate even on systems that do not support fopencookie.

ZIP extension registers zip: wrapper. As of PHP 7.2.0 and libzip 1.2.0+, support for the passwords for encrypted achives were added, allowing passwords to be supplied by stream contexts. Passwords can be set using the 'password' stream context option.

Usage

Options

Wrapper Summary
Attribute Supported
Restricted by allow_url_fopen No
Allows Reading Yes
Allows Writing Yes (except zip://)
Allows Appending Yes (except zip://)
Allows Simultaneous Reading and Writing No
Supports stat() No, use the normal file:// wrapper to stat compressed files.
Supports unlink() No, use the normal file:// wrapper to unlink compressed files.
Supports rename() No
Supports mkdir() No
Supports rmdir() No


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