What would be the best way to compact a string in PHP that can be decoded to its original form. The base64_encode works for numbers but it yields a longer result for strings that contain special characters.
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What would be the best way to compact a string in PHP that can be decoded to its original form. The base64_encode works for numbers but it yields a longer result for strings that contain special characters.
Gzencodeandgzdecodeuse the GZIP compression algorithm and are very efficient on plain text strings. Just be aware that the output may (will) contain binary characters not suitable for display and possibly not suitable for database storage either.(Edit: singe
gzdecodedoesn’t ship with PHP, considergzdeflateandgzinflate.Gzdeflatecompresses a string andgzinflatedecompresses it.)