Compressed Tickster dump file reader

read-tickster-dump.php

<?php
       // Sample code for reading a compressed Tickster dump file in php
       // Usage: php read-tickster-dump.php [FILENAME]
      

        // http://docs.php.net/manual/sr/function.gzfile.php#54255
        function gzfile_get_contents($filename, $use_include_path = 0)
        {
            //File does not exist
            if( !@file_exists($filename) )
                return false;

            //Read and imploding the array to produce a one line string
           $data = gzfile($filename, $use_include_path);
           $data = implode($data);

           return $data;
        }

        function read_tickster_dumpfile($dumpFilename) {
            var_dump(gzfile_get_contents($dumpFilename));
            return json_decode(gzfile_get_contents($dumpFilename));
        }

        $dump = read_tickster_dumpfile($argv[1]);
        var_dump($dump);

?>