What are some best practices for handling file compression in PHP?

When handling file compression in PHP, it is best practice to use the built-in functions provided by PHP such as zlib compression or the ZipArchive class for creating and extracting zip files. Additionally, it is important to properly handle errors and exceptions that may occur during compression or decompression to ensure the integrity of the files. 

// Example of compressing a file using zlib compression
$file = 'example.txt';
$compressedFile = 'example.txt.gz';

if ($fp = gzopen($compressedFile, 'w9')) {
    if ($data = file_get_contents($file)) {
        gzwrite($fp, $data);
    }
    gzclose($fp);
}

Keywords

file compression PHP zlib gzip compression algorithms

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