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Uncompressing .gz in php file

I need to know how to uncompress a .gz file in a php script I have tried several ways but it will not uncompress the file and write it to the hard drive

What I am doing is ftp to a site grab a .gz file that has a txt file in it I need to uncompress the gz file so I can use the txt file in another php script

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Nerd00

PHP includes the zlib library.

See this URL for the gzopen, gzread, and gzclose commands.

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.gzopen.php

Once you have the data in you can then write using the fopen, fwrite, fclose functions.

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php

This way is more direct and it doesn't depend on certain commands being available on the system command line.

txkhomes

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Can anyone give the language needed to do the following

ftp to site
grab archive and write to to y directory

unzip archive to x directory
exit

steveiam

You could do that in any number of languages, from a shell script (or batch file), though to PHP/C++/etc.

txkhomes

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What I want is for it to be php and be called from a cron job

Nerd00

http://www.php.net is a good place to get information.

There is a set of functions that will allow you to get a files from an ftp site... Lookup "FTP"

There is a set of functions that will let you unzip gz files... Lookup "zlib"

There isn't much to it. I just don't have the time right now to write the code for you or I would.

txkhomes

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I have no problem with closing this question