gzinflate()

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.4, PHP 5, PHP 7)

Inflate a deflated string

说明

This function inflates a deflated string.

参数

The data compressed by gzdeflate().

The maximum length of data to decode.

返回值

The original uncompressed data or FALSE on error.

The function will return an error if the uncompressed data is more than 32768 times the length of the compressed input$dataor more than the optional parameter$length.

范例

gzinflate() example

参见

• gzdeflate()Deflate a string
• gzcompress()Compress a string
• gzuncompress()Uncompress a compressed string
• gzencode()Create a gzip compressed string

To decode / uncompress the received HTTP POST data in PHP code, request data coming from Java / Android application via HTTP POST GZIP / DEFLATE compressed format
1) Data sent from Java Android app to PHP using DeflaterOutputStream java class and received in PHP as shown below
echo gzinflate( substr($HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA,2,-4) ) . PHP_EOL . PHP_EOL;
2) Data sent from Java Android app to PHP using GZIPOutputStream java class and received in PHP code as shown below
echo gzinflate( substr($HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA,10,-8) ) . PHP_EOL . PHP_EOL;
From Java Android side (API level 10+), data being sent in DEFLATE compressed format
    String body = "Lorem ipsum shizzle ma nizle";
    URL url = new URL("http://www.url.com/postthisdata.php");
    URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
    conn.setDoOutput(true);
    conn.setRequestProperty("Content-encoding", "deflate");
    conn.setRequestProperty("Content-type", "application/octet-stream");
    DeflaterOutputStream dos = new DeflaterOutputStream(
        conn.getOutputStream());
    dos.write(body.getBytes());
    dos.flush();
    dos.close();
    BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
        conn.getInputStream()));
    String decodedString = "";
    while ((decodedString = in.readLine()) != null) {
      Log.e("dump",decodedString);
    }
    in.close();
On PHP side (v 5.3.1), code for decompressing this DEFLATE data will be
  echo substr($HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA,2,-4);
From Java Android side (API level 10+), data being sent in GZIP compressed format
    String body1 = "Lorem ipsum shizzle ma nizle";
    URL url1 = new URL("http://www.url.com/postthisdata.php");
    URLConnection conn1 = url1.openConnection();
    conn1.setDoOutput(true);
    conn1.setRequestProperty("Content-encoding", "gzip");
    conn1.setRequestProperty("Content-type", "application/octet-stream");
    GZIPOutputStream dos1 = new GZIPOutputStream(conn1.getOutputStream());
    dos1.write(body1.getBytes());
    dos1.flush();
    dos1.close();
    BufferedReader in1 = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
        conn1.getInputStream()));
    String decodedString1 = "";
    while ((decodedString1 = in1.readLine()) != null) {
      Log.e("dump",decodedString1);
    }
    in1.close();
On PHP side (v 5.3.1), code for decompressing this GZIP data will be
  echo substr($HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA,10,-8);
Useful PHP code for printing out compressed data using all available formats.
$data = "Lorem ipsum shizzle ma nizle";
echo "\n\n\n";
for($i=-1;$i
Enjoy!

When retrieving mod_gzip'ed content and using gzinflate() to decode the data, be sure to strip the first 10 chars from the retrieved content. 

Take care when using the optional second parameter $length!
In our tests -at least in certain situations- we were unable to determine the actual use of this parameter, plus, it lead to the script either being unable to inflate compressed data or crash due to memory-problems.
Example:
When trying to inflate the compressed data from a website, we were literally unable to find a value (other than 0) for $length in order to make gzinflate work... while without the second parameter (or setting it to 0) gzinflate worked like a charm:

In short: We were unable to determine the actual use of the second parameter in certain situations.
Be careful with using the second parameter $length!

alternative, with detection for optional filename header 

And when retrieving mod_deflate gzip'ed content and using gzinflate() to decode the data, be sure to strip the first 11 chars from the retrieved content. 

Some gz string strip header and return inflated
It actualy processes some first member of the gz
See rfc1952 at http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1952.html for more details and improvment as gzdecode 

The code below illustrates usage of the second parameter, in particular to protect against fatal out-of-memory errors. It outputs:
1000000
1000000
error
Tested with PHP 5.3 on 32bit Linux. 

This can be used to inflate streams compressed by the Java class java.util.zip.Deflater but you must strip the first 2 bytes off it. ( much like the above comment )