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# bzcompress

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.4)

bzcompress -- Compress a string into bzip2 encoded data

## Description

string bzcompress ( string source [, int blocksize [, int workfactor]])

bzcompress() compresses the `source` string and returns it as bzip2 encoded data.

The optional parameter `blocksize` specifies the blocksize used during compression and should be a number from 1 to 9 with 9 giving the best compression, but using more resources to do so. `blocksize` defaults to 4.

The optional parameter `workfactor` controls how the compression phase behaves when presented with worst case, highly repetitive, input data. The value can be between 0 and 250 with 0 being a special case and 30 being the default value. Regardless of the `workfactor`, the generated output is the same.

Example 1. bzcompress() Example
    <?php
    $str = "sample data";
    $bzstr = bzcompress($str, 9);
    print( $bzstr );
    ?>

See also bzdecompress().

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