Re: opening remote tar.gz files

* Thus wrote Jay Blanchard (jay.blanchard@niicommunications.com): > [snip] > is it possible with PHP to download and open a remote tar.gz file?? I > read > in the manual that it is, but it never seems to work for me. > > I tried opening the file with fopen > fopen("zlib://http://www.site.com/update.tar.gz", > "r"); > but it didnt work > > Then I tried using the zlib functions but they just returned garbage. I > think it might have something to do with it not being able to handle > ".tar" > [/snip] > > See http://www.php.net/zlib and try $compFile = > gzopen("foo.tar.gz"), > "r"); The only problem with this is that he'll result with a tar file. Curt -- "I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure."