Re: note 8553 added to gzcompress

Can someone w/ a PHP compiled w/ zlib support confirm this? (can't get to CVS today server seems dead). --- wrote: > As a precaution, the gzcompress() and gzuncompress() > functions do not actually use gzip style compression > -- rather, they use compress or deflate. > > This will greatly affect compression of output from > PHP scripts. Assuming that you want to optionally > compress data from your PHP script to the browser > (if they support it), then you must not use this > function. > > if (browser_supports_gzip) > { > ob_start(); > } > > ... you output stuff here ... > > if (browser_supports_gzip) > { > Header("Content-Encoding: gzip"); > // THIS DOES NOT WORK > echo gzcompress(ob_get_contents()); > ob_end_clean(); > } > > If gzcompress gets changed in the future (4.0.3?) > then outputting compressed output from PHP scripts > will be much easier. Until then, you must replace > the single line above with several others -- > tempnam() to find a temporary file, gzopen() it, > write the contents of the buffer to the compressed > file, close the file, open the file as binary, write > the output to the browser, close the file, delete > the temporary file. > > I sincerely hope that either the documentation is > changed to reflect that gzip style compression is > not used, or maybe gzcompress()'s code gets changed > in PHP. > > http://www.php.net/manual/function.gzcompress.php > > > -- > PHP Notes Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > php-notes-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: > php-notes-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > php-list-admin@lists.php.net > ===== --- Jesus M. Castagnetto (jcastagnetto@yahoo.com) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/