A quicker way to load a gziped file in a string :
<?php
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;
}
?>