Downloading and Unzipping GZip on Your PHP Server From Another Web Server

Some site may offer a gzip file that you want to run with your PHP script, but that gzip file is always being updated and you want your script to download the newest version and use its contents.

This can be done very easily.

First, download the file you want to unzip, using something like this...

$file = file_put_contents("../data/SomeZipFileLocation.gz", fopen("SomeURL", 'r'), LOCK_EX);

Then you can read the contents like this...

$file = gzopen("../data/SomeZipFileLocation.gz", 'rb');
while (!gzeof($file)) {
print(gzread($file, 4000));
}

This will loop through each of the 4,000 bytes in the file from the gzip and display them.

Using this technique, you won't ever have to manually download and unzip these gzipped files to use the newest version with your code.