PHP open gzipped XML

Question

I am struggling to read gzipped xml files in php.

I did succeed in reading normal xml files, using XMLReader() like this:

$xml = new XMLReader();
$xm         


        

Answer 1

Maybe the function gzdecode could help you : the manual says (quote) :

Decodes a gzip compressed string

So, you'd have to :

• download the XML data
• get it as a string
• decompress it with gzdecode
• work on it with XMLReader

That would depend on the right extension (zlib I guess) beeing installed on your server, though...

Mark: Expanding on Pascal's post, here is some example code that should work for you

$xmlfile = fopen($linkToXmlFile,'rb');
$compressedXml = fread($xmlfile, filesize($linkToXmlFile));
fclose($xmlfile);
$uncompressedXml = gzdecode($compressedXml); 

$xml = new XMLReader();
$xml->xml($uncompressedXml);