bzopen

Opens a bzip2 compressed file

&reftitle.description; ``resource``false```bzopen` ``string``resource```file` `string` `mode`

`bzopen` opens a bzip2 (`.bz2`) file for reading or writing.

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`file`

- The 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;.

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If the open fails, `bzopen` returns &false;, otherwise it returns a pointer to the newly opened file.

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### `bzopen` example

    <?php

    $file = "/tmp/foo.bz2";
    $bz = bzopen($file, "r") or die("Couldn't open $file for reading");

    bzclose($bz);

    ?>

&reftitle.seealso;

- `bzclose`