lzw-ext

Native LZW encoding and decoding for PHP

WARNING: This is currently an alpha release.

Overview

These functions use the LZW implementation from https://github.com/vapier/ncompress

/**
 * Compress $inputPath file using LZW compression.
 * Write the compressed output to $outputPath.
 */
bool function lzw_compress_file($inputPath, $outputPath);

/**
 * Decompress $outputPath file using LZW compression.
 * Write the decompressed file to $outputPath.
 */
bool function lzw_decompress_file($inputPath, $outputPath);

Installation

Installation is the same as any PHP extension

• Download the source
• cd into the unpacked source directory
• phpize
• ./configure --enable-lzw
• make
• sudo make install