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# bzopen

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.4, PHP 5)

bzopen -- Opens a bzip2 compressed file

## Description

resource bzopen ( string filename, string mode)

bzopen() opens a bzip2 (.bz2) file for reading or writing. `filename` is the name of the file to open. `mode` is similar to the fopen() function (`r' for read, `w' for write, etc.).

If the open fails, bzopen() returns `FALSE`, otherwise it returns a pointer to the newly opened file.

Example 1. bzopen() Example
`<?php $file = "/tmp/foo.bz2"; $bz = bzopen($file, "r") or die("Couldn't open $file for reading"); bzclose($bz); ?>`

See also bzclose().

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