Re: zlib and fopen and stream_filter_append, prebuffer read errors help

Try gzuncompress(); On Dec 12, 2007, at 1:03 PM, Bob Sabiston <bob@flatblackfilms.com> wrote:

On Dec 12, 2007, at 2:31 PM, Richard Lynch wrote:

On Wed, December 12, 2007 11:28 am, Bob Sabiston wrote:

I'm trying to read some zlib-compressed data from a regular binary file. When I try to attach the zlib compression filter, I am getting an error: something about how the prebuffered data didn't work with the filter and so the filter wasn't added to the filter chain. I looked and found a way to turn off buffering for stream *writes*, but not for stream reads. Can anyone help with ideas for why this isn't working? I posted questions to comp.lang.php and received no response.

If all else fails, you could just not use the fancy-pants new stream and filter functions, and just use http://php.net/zlib directly on the file.

Sorry Richard for the double mail, I didn't have the list cc'd before... How could I do that? I thought the only way to use zlib in PHP was through the stream functions.

It's also possible your zlib file is just plain corrupt, and neither will work...

But I am getting the error before I start to read -- it is not a zlib 'file', it is a stretch of data within an ordinary file that has been compressed with zlib. Thanks Bob