Extracting Zip files with Php

[fluiduk]

Hi All

I need to use PHP to extract a zip file as part of a cron job.

I have found this code on the PHP site - http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.ziparchive-open.php

<?php
$zip = new ZipArchive;
$res = $zip->open('test.zip')
if ($res === TRUE) {
   echo 'ok';
   $zip->extractTo('test');
   $zip->close();
} else {
   echo 'failed, code:' . $res;
}
?>

Not too sure how it works though. I just want to extract a zip file to a directory. Can anyone advise how i would do that?

Thanks in advance
Aaron

 

[elkdanger]

You'd probably do it almost exactly how that example code does it. Does it not work?

You need to enable the php_zip.dll extension if you haven't already done so, if you're running under Windows. Have a look at the official ZipArchive documentation for details on how to get this working.

 

[Dj_Jestar]

meh..

<?php

echo exec('unzip /path/to/zipfile.zip /path/to/extraction/destination');

?>

Probably 100% unhelpful due to insufficient privileges on competent hosts, though.

 

[fluiduk]

No, I get this error


Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_IF in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\development\proccess_ingram.php on line 25


Line 25 is

if ($res === TRUE) {

Thanks

 

[fluiduk]

Sorted it, line before was missing ;