Unzip .bz2 (BZip2) Compressed File

Unzips a .bz2 compressed file.

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<?php

$bz2 = new COM("Chilkat.Bz2");

//  Any string unlocks the component for the 1st 30-days.
$success = $bz2->UnlockComponent('Anything for 30-day trial.');
if ($success != true) {
    print $bz2->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

//  The .bz2 file format is not an archive.  Only a single
//  file may be compressed / decompressed.  It is for this reason that you'll
//  often see TAR files compressed with BZip2 (i.e. a file
//  ending in .tar.bz2.

//  This example will uncompress an XML file.
//  The 1st arg is the file to decompress, the 2nd arg is
//  the output filename.
$success = $bz2->UncompressFile('hamlet.xml.bz2','hamlet.xml');
if ($success != true) {
    print $bz2->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

//  There is no limitation on the size of files that may be uncompressed.
print 'Success!' . "\n";
?>