PHP input/output streams
Data (RFC 2397)
List of Supported Protocols/Wrappers
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## Compression Streams

zlib: PHP 4.0.4 - PHP 4.2.3 (systems with fopencookie only)

compress.zlib:// and compress.bzip2:// PHP 4.3.0 and up

- zlib:
- compress.zlib://
- compress.bzip2://

zlib: works like gzopen(), except that the stream can be used with fread() and the other filesystem functions. This is deprecated as of PHP 4.3.0 due to ambiguities with filenames containing ':' characters; use compress.zlib:// instead.

compress.zlib:// and compress.bzip2:// are equivalent to gzopen() and bzopen() respectively, and operate even on systems that do not support fopencookie.

Wrapper Summary
Attribute | Supported
--- | ---
Restricted by allow_url_fopen | No
Allows Reading | Yes
Allows Writing | Yes
Allows Appending | Yes
Allows Simultaneous Reading and Writing | No
Supports stat() | No, use the normal file:// wrapper to stat compressed files.
Supports unlink() | No, use the normal file:// wrapper to unlink compressed files.
Supports rename() | No
Supports mkdir() | No
Supports rmdir() | No

ZIP extension registers zip: wrapper.

PHP input/output streams
Data (RFC 2397)
List of Supported Protocols/Wrappers
PHP Manual