November 3, 2009
decompress gz with php
Category: PHP, Tags: exec, gunzip, gzip, PHP, khadlock at 9:14 pm
I had a lot of trouble getting zlib to work today with PHP on our Media Temple DV server, but after a lot of testing discovered an easy solution to decompressing/unzipping .gz files.
exec("gunzip Filename.gz", $results);
Once decompressed I can read the file contents using fopen, file_get_contents, etc.
More information on the gzip commands can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gzip
