I'm using a simple unzip function (as seen below) for my files so I don't have to unzip files manually before they are processed further.
function uncompress($srcName, $dstName) {
$string = implode("", gzfile($srcName));
$fp = fopen($dstName, "w");
fwrite($fp, $string, strlen($string));
fclose($fp);
}
The problem is that if the gzip file is large (e.g. 50mb) the unzipping takes a large amount of ram to process.
The question: can I parse a gzipped file in chunks and still get the correct result? Or is there a better other way to handle the issue of extracting large gzip files (even if it takes a few seconds more)?
gzfile() is a convenience method that calls gzopen, gzread, and gzclose.
So, yes, you can manually do the gzopen and gzread the file in chunks.
This will uncompress the file in 4kB chunks:
function uncompress($srcName, $dstName) {
$sfp = gzopen($srcName, "rb");
$fp = fopen($dstName, "w");
while (!gzeof($sfp)) {
$string = gzread($sfp, 4096);
fwrite($fp, $string, strlen($string));
}
gzclose($sfp);
fclose($fp);
}
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