diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 3ebf0cae0..00e00e7c6 100755
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ $Source$
     * libraries/sqlparser.lib.php3:
         - Fixed ANSI type string escaping
         - Fixed formatting wrt. whitespace in FormatHTML
+        - PHP3 fix for gzcompress bug code
     
 2002-07-26 Marc Delisle  <lem9@users.sourceforge.net>
     * Documentation.html: numbers for faq entries
diff --git a/libraries/sqlparser.lib.php3 b/libraries/sqlparser.lib.php3
index 423457f0c..25b0bd823 100644
--- a/libraries/sqlparser.lib.php3
+++ b/libraries/sqlparser.lib.php3
@@ -383,11 +383,12 @@ if (!defined('PMA_SQP_LIB_INCLUDED')) {
             $debugstr   .= 'Leftover: ' . substr($sql, $count1, $count2 - $count1) . '<br />' . "\n";
             $debugstr   .= 'A: ' . $count1 . ' ' . $count2 . '<br />' . "\n";
             $debugstr   .= 'SQL: ' . $sql;
-            $encodedstr = nl2br(chunk_split(base64_encode(gzcompress($debugstr, 9))));
+            if (PMA_PHP_INT_VERSION >= 40001 && @function_exists('gzcompress')) {
+                $debugstr = gzcompress($debugstr, 9);
+            }
+            $encodedstr = nl2br(chunk_split(base64_encode($debugstr)));
             echo $encodedstr . "\n";
             echo '---END CUT---<br /><br />' . "\n\n";
-            //$decodedstr = /*gzuncompress(*/base64_decode(str_replace('<br />', '', $encodedstr))/*)*/;
-            //echo $decodedstr . "\n";
             echo '</p>' . "\n";
             flush();
             ob_flush();