Decompressing a .gz file via PHP

Question

I need to be able to decompress through PHP some data that I have in a string which uses the gzip format. I need to do this via PHP, not by calling - through

Answer 1

Well I found my answer by reading the comments on the gzdecode page I linked in my original post. One of the users, Aaron G, provided an implementation of it and it works:

 0) {
    switch ($method) {
      case 8:
        // Currently the only supported compression method:
        $data = gzinflate($body);
        break;
      default:
        // Unknown compression method
        return false;
    }
  } else {
    // I'm not sure if zero-byte body content is allowed.
    // Allow it for now...  Do nothing...
  }

  // Verifiy decompressed size and CRC32:
  // NOTE: This may fail with large data sizes depending on how
  //       PHP's integer limitations affect strlen() since $isize
  //       may be negative for large sizes.
  if ($isize != strlen($data) || crc32($data) != $datacrc) {
    // Bad format!  Length or CRC doesn't match!
    return false;
  }
  return $data;
}

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