(PHP 4 >= 4.0.4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
bzopen — Opens a bzip2 compressed file
bzopen() opens a bzip2 (.bz2) file for reading or writing.
fileThe name of the file to open, or an existing stream resource.
mode
The modes 'r' (read), and 'w' (write) are supported.
Everything else will cause bzopen() to return false.
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);
?>