Req #63880 [Opn]: Implement xz compression

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=63880&edit=1 ID: 63880 User updated by: tobias at freiwuppertal dot de Reported by: tobias at freiwuppertal dot de Summary: Implement xz compression Status: Open Type: Feature/Change Request Package: *Compression related Operating System: Irrelevant -PHP Version: Irrelevant +PHP Version: 7.1.0 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Defining a version number to make people aware of this bug. 2013-01-01! Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-02-25 16:31:35] tobias at freiwuppertal dot de Starred & watching :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-02-25 01:51:09] payden at paydensutherland dot com I've only had a couple of days so far, so I must stress that this is probably very buggy and I do NOT recommend running this extension on anything considered production, but feel free to test it out on a development machine, i.e. your personal Linux box. :) Also, you'll be able to follow my progress with it if you want: https://github.com/payden/php-xz ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-02-24 14:23:12] tobias at freiwuppertal dot de Thank you very much! :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-02-24 08:43:02] payden at paydensutherland dot com I started working on a xz extension for PHP. I got the basics of the writing half of it worked out tonight, which is definitely the easy part. :) I'll let you know when I get a workable extension for testing. This is what I have so far: payden@arwen:~$ cat test.php <?php ini_set('display_errors','on'); error_reporting(E_ALL); $fh = fopen("php://stdin", "r"); $xz = xzopen("/tmp/test.xz", "w"); while (!feof($fh)) { fwrite($xz, fgets($fh, 1000)); } fclose($xz); ?> payden@arwen:~$ php test.php testing this out.... stdin... blah. payden@arwen:~$ xzcat /tmp/test.xz testing this out.... stdin... blah. payden@arwen:~$ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-01-01 00:03:18] tobias at freiwuppertal dot de Description: ------------ http://php.net/manual/en/refs.compression.php ^ xz is not implemented yet, sadly. :-/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xz The compression results are usually significantly better than those of bzip2. This feature request currently blocks another one at phpbb: http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-11300 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=63880&edit=1