Posted by Richard Lynch on 09/30/49 11:14

On Sat, April 23, 2005 12:44 am, Prathaban Mookiah said:
> Is there a way to test if a .gz file is in a valid format. Functions like
> gzread, gzfile don't seem to care if the file is corrupt or not.
>
> gzeof also didn't work for me. I guess it is because it does not check for
> a
> valid .gz termination. Any ideas to go about doing this?

Google for gz and gzip and validity tests.

Most likely, you'll need to http://php.net/exec to test the files...

Or you could maybe add in the functionality to PHP itself with some C
hacking :-)

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