Compression and Archive Extensions
Introduction
Compression and Archive Extensions
PHP Manual

# Zlib Compression

- Introduction
- Installing/Configuring
  - Installation
  - Runtime Configuration
  - Resource Types
- Predefined Constants
- Examples
- Zlib Functions
  - gzclose — Close an open gz-file pointer
  - gzcompress — Compress a string
  - gzdecode — Decodes a gzip compressed string
  - gzdeflate — Deflate a string
  - gzencode — Create a gzip compressed string
  - gzeof — Test for end-of-file on a gz-file pointer
  - gzfile — Read entire gz-file into an array
  - gzgetc — Get character from gz-file pointer
  - gzgets — Get line from file pointer
  - gzgetss — Get line from gz-file pointer and strip HTML tags
  - gzinflate — Inflate a deflated string
  - gzopen — Open gz-file
  - gzpassthru — Output all remaining data on a gz-file pointer
  - gzputs — Alias of gzwrite
  - gzread — Binary-safe gz-file read
  - gzrewind — Rewind the position of a gz-file pointer
  - gzseek — Seek on a gz-file pointer
  - gztell — Tell gz-file pointer read/write position
  - gzuncompress — Uncompress a compressed string
  - gzwrite — Binary-safe gz-file write
  - readgzfile — Output a gz-file
  - zlib_get_coding_type — Returns the coding type used for output compression

Compression and Archive Extensions
Introduction
Compression and Archive Extensions
PHP Manual