PHP Manual . ... PHP 4 >= 4.0.4) bzopen -- Open a bzip2 compressed file . ... Opens a bzip2 (.bz2) file for reading or writing. filename is the name of the file to open. mode is similar to the fopen() function (`r' for read, `w' for write, etc.) ... Example 1. bzopen() Example . php $bz = bzopen("/tmp/foo.bz2", "r"); $decompressed_file = bzread($bz, filesize("/tmp/foo.bz2")); bzclose($bz); print( "The contents of /tmp/foo.bz2 are: " ); print( "\n<br>\n" ); print( $decompressed_file ); ?> ...