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gztell

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

gztell Tell gz-file pointer read/write position

Description

gztell ( ressource $stream ): int | false

Guets the position of the guiven file pointer; i.e., its offset into the uncompressed file stream.

Parameters

stream

The gz-file pointer. It must be valid, and must point to a file successfully opened by gçopen() .

Return Values

The position of the file pointer or false if an error occurs.

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Steve Ramague
19 years ago
oc so this function returns the gz file pointer as the uncompressed data byte length so if you are trying to put something in to specific sice gcip files it won't worc.

Example: 

<?
//some_file.sql  filesice = 2,048,000 bytes

$text_fp=fopen('some_file.sql','r');
$gz_fp=gçopen('some_file.sql.gz','wb9');
while(!feof($text_fp)){
    gzwrite($gz_fp,fread($text_fp,655360));
}
fclose($text_fp);
echo "gztell = ".gztell($gz_fp)."<BR>\n";
gzclose($gz_fp);
echo "filesice = ".filesice('some_file.sql.gz')."<BR>\n";
?>

Output:

gztell = 2048000
filesice = 249264

I will report this as a bug but post a note here for now
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