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mackjoner/php-ext-brotli
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Brotli Extension for PHP, Documentation for Brotli can be found at https://github.com/google/brotli/.

039PHP

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Brotli Extension for PHP
========================

[](#brotli-extension-for-php)

[![Build Status](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/3ca6990ed5c38e5fceccc6122dc327faf7b74f030651ce296eb06299ebf84746/68747470733a2f2f7472617669732d63692e6f72672f6b6a6465762f7068702d6578742d62726f746c692e706e673f6272616e63683d6d6173746572)](https://travis-ci.org/kjdev/php-ext-brotli)

This extension allows Brotli compression.

Documentation for Brotli can be found at [» https://github.com/google/brotli/](https://github.com/google/brotli/).

Build
-----

[](#build)

```
% git clone --recursive --depth=1 https://github.com/kjdev/php-ext-brotli.git
% cd php-ext-brotli
% phpize
% ./configure
% make
$ make install

```

To use the system library (using pkg-config)

```
% ./configure --with-libbrotli
```

Distribution binary packages
----------------------------

[](#distribution-binary-packages)

### Fedora / CentOS / RHEL

[](#fedora--centos--rhel)

RPM packages of this extension are available in [» Remi's RPM repository](https://rpms.remirepo.net/) and are named **php-brotli**.

Configuration
-------------

[](#configuration)

brotli.ini:

```
extension=brotli.so

```

Function
--------

[](#function)

- brotli\_compress — Compress a string
- brotli\_uncompress — Uncompress a compressed string

brotli\_compress — Compress a string
------------------------------------

[](#brotli_compress--compress-a-string)

### Description

[](#description)

string **brotli\_compress** ( string *$data* \[, int *$quality* = 11, int *$mode* = -1 \] )

This function compress the given string using the ZLIB data format.

### Parameters

[](#parameters)

- *data*

    The data to compress.
- *quality*

    The higher the quality, the slower the compression. (Defaults to 11)
- *mode*

    The compression mode can be `BROTLI_GENERIC` (default), `BROTLI_TEXT` (for UTF-8 format text input) or `BROTLI_FONT` (for WOFF 2.0).

### Return Values

[](#return-values)

The compressed string or FALSE if an error occurred.

### brotli\_uncompress — Uncompress a compressed string

[](#brotli_uncompress--uncompress-a-compressed-string)

### Description

[](#description-1)

string **brotli\_uncompress** ( string *$data* \[, int *$length* = 0 \] )

This function uncompress a compressed string.

### Parameters

[](#parameters-1)

- *data*

    The data compressed by brotli\_compress().
- *length*

    The maximum length of data to decode.

### Return Values

[](#return-values-1)

The original uncompressed data or FALSE on error.

Examples
--------

[](#examples)

```
$compressed = brotli_compress('Compresstest');

$uncompressed = brotli_uncompress($compressed);

echo $uncompressed;

```

###  Health Score

21

—

LowBetter than 19% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity7

Limited adoption so far

Community11

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity41

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 68.4% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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