Load and save a array dump

Loads and saves a compressed dump of an array

function load_array_dump($filename) {
    $fp = fopen($filename,"r");
    $content = fread($fp,filesize($filename));
    fclose($fp);
 
    eval('$array='.gzuncompress(stripslashes($content)).';'); 
    return($array);
}
 
function save_array_dump($filename, $array) {
    $dump = addslashes(gzcompress(var_export($array,true),9));
    $fp = fopen($filename, "wb+");
    fwrite($fp, $dump);
    fclose($fp);
}

Snippet information

Author:
Jonas John

License:
Public Domain

Language:
PHP

Created:
04/03/2006

Updated:
04/03/2006

Tags:
array functions, serialize

save_array_dump('test.txt', array(1,2,3));

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Older comments:

bayram May 10, 2010 at 13:20

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Mohamed December 14, 2008 at 14:12

$el_file = "el_array.txt";

$el_array = load_array_dump($el_file);

echo "<pre>El array :n";

print_r($el_array);

zenk September 09, 2008 at 05:16

O,it's very goooood function.