serverA wrap (bzip2) database recordset, serverB unwrap it

///////////////////////////wrap
$mysql = new dbase();
$mysql->connect_mysql();

$rows_USERS = $mysql->getSet("select * from mytable limit 5000", null);

//encode recordset array to json string		http://php.net/manual/en/function.json-encode.php
$s = json_encode($rows_USERS);

//compress string with ratio 9				http://php.net/manual/en/function.gzcompress.php
$out = bzcompress($s, 9);

//encode data with MIME base64				http://php.net/manual/en/function.base64-encode.php
$out2 = base64_encode($out);

//write to file
file_put_contents('the_recs.dat', $out2);

///////////////////////////post to serverB
$target_url = 'http://serverB/upload.php';

	//This needs to be the full path to the file you want to send.
$file_name_with_full_path = realpath('./the_recs.dat');
	/* extra_info will appear at $_POST (Note that you can include other arguments in the post along with the file. This allows you to authenticate the upload)
	 * my_file will appear at $_FILES
	 */
$post = array('extra_info' => '123456', 'my_file'=> new CurlFile($file_name_with_full_path, 'application/octet-stream', 'filename.foo'));

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$target_url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
$result=curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
echo $result;

///////////////////////////unwrap
//read file content                         http://php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php
$out = file_get_contents('the_recs.dat');

//decode data encoded with MIME base64      http://php.net/manual/en/function.base64-decode.php
$out2 = base64_decode($out);

//decompress                                http://php.net/manual/en/function.bzdecompress.php
$out3 = bzdecompress($out2);

//decode json string                        http://php.net/manual/en/function.json-decode.php
$out4 = json_decode($out3, true);           //When TRUE, returned objects will be converted into associative arrays. Otherwise will be stdClass

var_dump($out4);

///////////////////////////serverB/upload.php
$uploaddir = realpath('./') . '/';
$uploadfile = $uploaddir . basename($_FILES['my_file']['name']);

echo '

';
        if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES['my_file']['tmp_name'], $uploadfile)) {
            echo "File is valid, and was successfully uploaded.\n";
        } else {
            echo "Possible file upload attack!\n";
        }
        echo 'Here is some more debugging info:';
        print_r($_FILES);
        echo "\n

    * * *
    \n";
        print_r($_POST);

    print "
\n";

/*
pure		= 856kb
gzcompress 	= 119kb								http://php.net/manual/en/function.gzcompress.php
bzcompress 	= 71.7kb							http://php.net/manual/en/function.bzcompress.php
3959 records -bzip2- 1.63mb => 302kb

Encoding the compressed data into json string 
got better results with json vs serialize (https://stackoverflow.com/a/32819917) on a long recordset.
*/