I just reworded (see below), and also I improved code slightly. Note
that, currently, my previous note shows. I assume that will change
soon.

Note:

The code below illustrates usage of the second parameter, in particular to
protect against fatal out-of-memory errors. It outputs:

1000000
1000000
error

Tested with PHP 5.3 on 32bit Linux.

<?php

function tryToGzinflate($deflatedData, $maxLen = 0) {
  $data = gzinflate($deflatedData, $maxLen);
  if ($data === false)
    echo 'error<br>';
  else
    echo strlen($data).'<br>';
}

// random data:
$data = '';
for ($i = 0; $i < 1000000; $i++)
  $data .= chr(mt_rand(97, 122)); // a-z

$deflatedData = gzdeflate($data);

ini_set('memory_limit', '5M'); // plenty of memory
tryToGzinflate($deflatedData);
tryToGzinflate($deflatedData, strlen($data));

ini_set('memory_limit', '100'); // little memory
tryToGzinflate($deflatedData, 100);
tryToGzinflate($deflatedData); // causes fatal out-of-memory error

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