Problem with gzencode()

[DrDoc]

Consider the following lines of code:

if($gzip) { 
  echo " Generating gzip...\n"; 
  $MIME = "application/gzip"; 
  $data = gzencode($data,9); 
  $filename .= ".gz"; 
} 
echo " Saving file as $filename...\n"; 
$fh = fopen("temp/$filename", "w"); 
fwrite($fh,$data); 
fclose($fh);

As long as I don't use the gzip function ($gzip=0) everything works fine, but as soon as I gzencode the data, it gets messed up. Any clue why? :(

[DrDoc]

Seems like it works as long as I don't specify the compression level... (?)

[coopster]

What version of PHP? Compression level was added in PHP 4.2.

[DoppyNL]

you are outputting plain text (the messages to inform the user) AND the actual gzipped file into the same stream.
Effectivly making a big mess.

Remove the echo statements and just send the file and it should be ok.

[DrDoc]

Not same stream...
The echo statements go to the user (commandline app). The gzipped data goes in a file.