This extension allows Snappy.

Documentation for Snappy can be found at » http://google.github.io/snappy/.

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

To use the system library

./configure --with-snappy-includedir=/usr

RPM packages of this extension are available in » Remi's RPM repository and are named php-snappy.

php.ini:

extension=snappy.so

string snappy_compress( string $data )

data:

The data to compress.

The compressed string or FALSE if an error occurred.

string snappy_uncompress( string $data )

name:

The data compressed by snappy_compress(). 

The original uncompressed data or FALSE on error.

$compressed = snappy_compress('Compress me');

$uncompressed = snappy_uncompress($compressed);

echo $uncompressed;

Snappy requires C++ and therefore might require for you to install the g++ or build-essential package.

If you get an error about "this file requires compiler and library support" or compilation errors on OSX, you need to enforce the compilation with -std=c++11 flag:

export CXXFLAGS=-std=c++11
phpize
./configure
make