bzcompress()
bzcompress - Compress a string into bzip2 encoded data
Syntax
mixed bzcompress (
string $source,
int $blocksize,
int $workfactor)
Arguments
- source - The string to compress.
- blocksize - Specifies the blocksize used during compression and should be a number from 1 to 9 with 9 giving the best compression, but using more resources to do so.
- workfactor - Controls how the compression phase behaves when presented with worst case, highly repetitive, input data. The value can be between 0 and 250 with 0 being a special case. Regardless of the workfactor, the generated output is the same.
Description
bzcompress() compresses the given string and returns it as bzip2 encoded data.
Version
PHP 4.0.4, 5
Return value
The compressed string or number of error in case of error.
