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When I started out on unix.com, I was awestruck by the ultra-compressed one-liners from the clever guys (Scrutinizer, you were my hero!!!). Over time, I learned from you guys and started doling out some good (I believe Smilie

) one-liners myself.

I viewed one-liners as a way to test my knowledge and bring in some supposedly esoteric features of the tool into the solution. But, now I realize that the people who will actually use that solution will hardly appreciate (or be able to) the "art". Also, the "compression" will only confuse myself some time in the future! So, it's better to make a trade-off somewhere...

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gzcompress

GZCOMPRESS(3)								 1							     GZCOMPRESS(3)

gzcompress - Compress a string

SYNOPSIS

       string gzcompress (string  $data, [int  $level = -1], [int  $encoding = ZLIB_ENCODING_DEFLATE])

DESCRIPTION

	This function compresses the given string using the ZLIB data format.

	For details on the ZLIB compression algorithm see the document "ZLIB Compressed Data Format Specification version 3.3" (RFC 1950).

       Note

	       This is not the same as gzip compression, which includes some header data. See gzencode(3) for gzip compression.

PARAMETERS

	      o $data
		- The data to compress.

	      o $level
		- The level of compression. Can be given as 0 for no compression up to 9 for maximum compression.  If -1 is used, the default com-
		pression of the zlib library is used which is 6.

	      o $encoding
		- One of ZLIB_ENCODING_* constants.

RETURN VALUES

	The compressed string or FALSE if an error occurred.

EXAMPLES

       Example #1

	      gzcompress(3) example

	      <?php
	      $compressed = gzcompress('Compress me', 9);
	      echo $compressed;
	      ?>

CHANGELOG

       +--------+-----------------------------+
       |Version |			      |
       |	|			      |
       |	|	  Description	      |
       |	|			      |
       +--------+-----------------------------+
       | 5.4.0	|			      |
       |	|			      |
       |	|  Added $encoding parameter. |
       |	|			      |
       +--------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO

       gzdeflate(3), gzinflate(3), gzuncompress(3), gzencode(3).

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