juanchosl/compression

Grouped tools in order to abstract compression tasks compatible with few formats and encodings.

1.0.x-dev 2026-08-22 11:48 UTC

Requires

• php: ^8.0
• juanchosl/exceptions: 1.0.*
• juanchosl/validators: 1.0.*

Requires (Dev)

• phpstan/phpstan: 1.12.*
• phpunit/phpunit: 9.6.*

MIT

• Juan Sánchez Lecegui

• compression
• gzip
• deflate
• raw
• zlib
• zstd

Published on Packagist.org on 2026-08-22 11:48 UTC

README

Description

Little methods collection in order to compress/uncompress strings or create/manage compressed files

Install

composer require juanchosl/compression

Data Compression

At first, we can compress/uncompress strings, it is not needed that use a regular file, can be used from/to http messages directly.

• Bzip2 (require bz2 extension) (https://www.php.net/manual/es/book.bzip2.php)
• Pure Gzip RFC 1952
• Lzf (require lzf extension) (https://www.php.net/manual/es/book.lzf.php)
• Gzip/Deflate (require zlib extension) RFC 1951
• Brotli (require brotli extension)
• Zstd (require zstd extension)

How to use

We can select from few extensions, in order to change the format between the available extensions or the specyfic need, with no code changes.

Plain text/data

Compress

$format = new CompressionBrotli($level = 8);
$compressed_text = $format->compress($uncompressed_text);

Uncompress

$format = new CompressionZstd();
$uncompressed_text = $format->decompress($compressed_text);